Concert Music, Rock, and Jazz since 1945: Essays and Analytical Studies

Contents

• Beyond Unity: Toward an Understanding of Musical Postmodernism
• The Art-Science of Music after Two Millennia
• Aspects of Confluence between Western Art Music and Ethnomusicoloy
• Twelve-Tone Composition and the Music of Elliott Carter
• An Analysis of Polyrhythm in Selected Improvisd Jazz Solos
• A Generalization of Contour Theory to Diverse Musical Spaces: Analytical Applications to the Music of Dallapiccola and StockhausenStockhausen
• A Generalization of Contour Theory to diverse Musical Spaces: Analytical Applications to the Music ofDdallapiccola and StockhausenStockhausen
• The Beatles as Composers: The Genesis of Abbey Road, Side Two
• Structural Factors in the Microcanonic Compositions of Gyorgy Ligeti
• Theory, Analysis, and the "Problem" of Minimal Music
• The Question of Climax in Ruth Crawford's String Quartet, Mvt. 3
• Does the Song Remain the Same? Questions of Authorship and Identification in the Music of Led Zeppelin
• Theories of Chordal Shape, Aspects of Linguistics, and their Roles in Structuring Berio's Sequenza IV for Piano
• Stylistic Competencies, Musical Satire, and "This is Spinal Tap"
• Music Theory and the Postmodern Muse: An Afterword