Understanding Post-Tonal Music

Contents

• Introduction: An Overview of Twentieth Century Compositional Styles
• The Century of Plurality: Tonal, Post-tonal, Atonal, and Other Styles
• The Stylistic Mosaic
• Chapter 1. Pitch Centricity and Composition with Motivic Cells
• Pitch Centricity
• Diatonic Collections
• Pentatonic Collections
• Analysis 1.1. Debussy, "La cathedrale engloutie," from Preludes, Book I (Anthology, no. 1)
• Analysis 1.2. Stravinsky, Introduction to Part I, from The Rite of Spring (Anthology, no. 4)
• Chapter 2. Pitch Centricity, Equal Divisions of the Octave, and Symmetry
• Interval Cycles and Equal Divisions of the Octave
• Symmetrical Motivic Cells
• Symmetry Around an Axis
• Symmetrical Scales
• Analysis 2.1. Bartok, "Song of the Harvest," from Forty-four Violin Duets (Anthology, no. 5)
• Analysis 2.2. Bartok, "Whole-tone Scale," from Mikrokosmos, Vol. 5 (Anthology, no. 6)
• Chapter 3. Introduction to Pitch-Class-Set Theory
• Preliminary Concepts
• Pitch-Class Sets: Orderings and Basic Relationships
• Pitch-Class Sets: Further Properties and Relationships
• Pitch-Class Set Theory: A Summary
• Chapter 4. Analyzing Atonal Music
• Analyzing Atonal Music
• Analysis 4.1. Webern, "Five Movements for String Quartet," Op. 5, III (Anthology, no. 10)
• Analysis 4.2. Schoenberg "Angst und Hoffen," No. 7 from Book of the Hanging Gardens, Op. 15 (Anthology, no. 11)
• Chapter 5. Drawing on (and Reinterpreting) the Past . . .
• Neoclassicism
• Analysis 5.1. Stravinsky, Agnus Dei, from Mass (Anthology, no. 13)
• Hindemith's Theoretical and Compositional Premises
• Analysis 5.2. Hindemith, Interlude in G, from Ludus tonalis (Anthology, no. 14)
• Chapter 6. . . . And Inventing the Future
• Ultramodern Aesthetics
• Ives and Musical Borrowing
• Analysis 6.1. Ives, "The Cage" (Anthology no. 16)
• Analysis 6.2. Crawford, Diaphonic Suite No. 4, III (Anthology no. 17)
• Chapter 7. Twelve-Tone Music I: An Introduction
• The Twelve-Tone Method
• Basic Principles
• Building a Row
• Labeling Row Forms
• Building a Twelve-Tone Matrix
• Identifying Given Row Forms Without Using a Matrix
• Analysis 7.1. Dallapiccola, "Contrapunctus secundus," from Quaderno musicale di Annalibera (Anthology no. 18)
• Chapter 8. Twelve-Tone Music II : Invariance, Symmetry, and Combinatoriality
• Invariance
• Webern and Row Symmetry
• Analysis 8.1. Webern, Piano Variations, Op. 27, II (Anthology no. 20)
• Hexachordal Combinatoriality
• Analysis 8.2. Schoenberg, Klavierstuck, Op. 33a (Anthology no. 21)
• Chapter 9. Serialism: Developments After 1945
• Control vs. Indeterminacy
• Stravinsky and Serialism
• Analysis 9.1. Stravinsky, "Lacrimosa," from Requiem Canticles (Anthology no. 22)
• Analysis 9.2. Boulez, Structures Ia (Anthology no. 23)
• Milton Babbitt's Serial Methods
• Chapter 10. Expanding the Limits of Musical Temporality
• Rhythmic and Metric Irregularities in Post-Tonal Music
• Temporal Issues in the Music of Messiaen
• Analysis 10.1. Messiaen, Introduction, from Turangalila Symphony (Anthology, no. 24)
• Tempo as a Structural Element in the Music of Elliott Carter
• Analysis 10.2. Stockhausen, Stimmung (Anthology no. 25)
• Chapter 11. Aleatory Music: Sound Mass, Texture, and Timbre
• John Cage's Creative Journey
• Analysis 11.1. Lutoslawki, Jeux venitiens, I (Anthology no. 26)
• Analysis 11.2. Penderecki, St. Luke Passion, no. 13, "Et Surgens Omnis Multitudo" (Anthology no. 27)
• Analysis 11.3. Gubaidulina, String Quartet no. 2, Reh. 1-21 (Anthology, no. 28)
• Chapter 12. Electronic, Computer, and Spectral Musics
• The Principles of Sound Synthesis
• Analysis 12.1. Stockhausen, Telemusik, Sections 1-5 (Anthology no. 29)
• Composition with Computers
• Analysis 12.2: Jonathan Harvey, Mortuos plango, vivos voco
• Analysis 12.3. Barry Truax, Riverrun (Anthology no. 30)
• Spectral Music
• Chapter 13. Integrating the Past and Reimagining Harmony
• Integrating the Past
• Analysis 13.1. Berio, Sinfonia, III (Anthology no. 31)
• Analysis 13.2. Ligeti, Ramifications, mm. 1-44 (Anthology no. 32)
• Analysis 13.3. Crumb, "Primeval Sounds," from Makrokosmos, vol. 1, no. 1 (Anthology no. 33)
• Chapter 14. Simplifying Means
• Minimalism
• Analysis 14.1. Reich, Violin Phase (Anthology no. 35)
• Nonfunctional Triadic Voice Leading
• Analysis 14.2. Adams, Nixon in China, Act I, "News" Aria, mm. 374-542 (Anthology no. 36)
• Analysis 14.3. Part, Cantus (Anthology no. 37)
• Chapter 15. Into the Twenty-First Century
• Analysis 15.1. Torke, Adjustable Wrench, mm. 1-72 (Anthology no. 38)
• The Return of the Motive
• Analysis 15.2. Thomas, Spring Song (Anthology no. 39)
• Analysis 15.3. Ades, Asyla, II (Anthology no. 40)
• Analysis 15.4. Saariaho, Ariel's Hail (Anthology no. 41)