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Silence and slow time : studies in musical narrative / Martin Boykan.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML3850 .B78 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boykan, Martin.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Musical meter and rhythm.
- Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.
- Music.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 255 pages : music ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, [2004]
- Summary:
- This book proposes a way of thinking about music that is faithful to the experience of playing or listening during a real performance. Narrative, in this context, refers to the rhythm of a piece and the way it shapes the succession of events, and the ch
- Contents:
- Prologue : words and music
- Words about music : the visual fallacy
- Reconceiving Schenker
- Inventing tonality
- and a backward look
- The path to the twentieth century
- Schoenberg and Webern
- Stravinsky and musical stasis
- Reconceiving twelve-tone theory
- The tradition at an apocalyptic moment : the Schoenberg Trio
- On the threshold of the new century.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0810847515
- OCLC:
- 51769222
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