Engaging music : essays in music analysis / edited by Deborah Stein.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stein, Deborah J. (Deborah Jane)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Musical analysis.

Physical Description:

xiv, 346 pages : music ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

Summary:

The first collection of its kind, Engaging Music: Essays in Music Analysis includes twenty-two selections by highly esteemed contemporary music theorists, seventeen of which were written especially for this volume. Featuring work by such luminaries as Charles Burkhart, Edward T. Cone, Allen Forte, David B. Lewin, and Carl Schachter, the book is an ideal text for undergraduate and graduate courses in form and analysis. It also serves as an invaluable reference for music teachers, students, and musicians.

Opening with an introduction to writing analytical essays, Engaging Music then presents introductory readings that describe analytical approaches to rhythm, meter, and phrase; pitch (twelve-tone music); form in jazz and rock music; and musical ambiguity. The following essays offer exemplary models of analysis that cover a wide range of composers, from the Baroque (Purcell and Bach) and the Classical (Beethoven, Haydn, and Mozart) to the nineteenth century (Brahms, Chopin, Schubert, Schumann, and Wagner) and the early twentieth century (Bartok, Schoenberg, and Webern). The selections explore a diversity of genres-from opera to music for computer-generated tape-and a variety of analytical approaches, from Schenkerian to feminist. The volume also includes analyses of popular music (from jazz to a Sarah MacLachlan song) and of a relatively recent work by Barbara Kolb. A comprehensive glossary defines terms and concepts that may be unfamiliar to students, and a selected bibliography suggests other appropriate readings. Reflecting the broad spectrum of current interests and perspectives in the field, Engaging Music provides a unique window into the multifaceted world of music theory and analysis.

Contents:

Introduction to Writing Analytical Essays / William Marvin xi

Part I Introduction to Analytical Topics and Techniques

Rhythm, Meter, and Phrase

1 The Phrase Rhythm of Chopin's A-flat Mazurka, Op. 59, No. 2 / Charles Burkhart 3

2 Hypermeter and Hypermetric Irregularity in the Songs of Josephine Lang / Harald Krebs 13

Pitch

3 Schenker's Conception of Musical Structure / Allen Forte 30

4 "Learn to Draw Bob Hope!" Mort Drucker, Arnold Schoenberg, and Twelve-Tone Music / Andrew Mead 36

Form

5 Analyzing the Unity within Contrast: Chick Corea's "Starlight" / Ramon Satyendra 50

6 Form in Rock Music: A Primer / John Covach 65

Musical Ambiguity

7 Introduction to Musical Ambiguity / Deborah Stein 77

8 Attacking a Brahms Puzzle / Edward T. Cone 89

Part II Model Essays: Text and Music

9 Figaro's Mistakes / David B. Lewin 99

10 Motive and Text in Four Schubert Songs / Carl Schachter 110

11 Isolde's Transfiguration in Words and Music / Patrick McCreless 122

12 Meaning in a Popular Song: The Representation of Masochistic Desire in Sarah McLachlan's "Ice," / Lori Burns 136

13 In Search of Purcell's Dido / Janet Schmalfeldt 149

Part III Model Essays: Instrumental

Performance and Analysis

14 The Presto from Bach's G-Minor Sonata for Violin Solo: Style, Rhythm, and Form in a Baroque Moto Perpetuo / Joel Lester 167

15 Dramatic Progression in Haydn, Sonata No. 46 in A-flat, Adagio / Marion A. Guck 180

16 Formal and Expressive Intensification in Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 8, Second Movement / Roger Graybill 191

17 Playing with Forms: Mozart's Rondo in D Major, K. 485 / William Rothstein 202

18 Two Post-tonal Analyses, Webern, "Wie bin ich froh!" from Three Songs, Op. 25; Schoenberg, "Nacht," from Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21 / Joseph N. Straus 215

19 "This music crept by me upon the waters": Introverted Motives in Beethoven's "Tempest" Sonata / Richard Cohn 226

20 "Rounding Up the Usual Suspects?": The Enigmatic Narrative of Chopin's C-sharp Minor Prelude / Charles J. Smith 236

Texture

21 Texture and Timbre in Barbara Kolb's Millefoglie for Chamber Orchestra and Computer-Generated Tape / Judith Lochhead 253.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-339) and index.

ISBN:

0195170105

OCLC:

54752753