Tonal Music Twelve Analytic Studies / Jeffrey Kresky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kresky, Jeffrey, 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Musikalische Analyse.

Muzikale analyse.

Musical analysis.

Analyse musicale.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource xiii, 167 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Indiana University Press 1977

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1977.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A frequent approach to musical analysis is to consider one term or concept at a time, illustrating it with fragments of several compositions. But the format of this original and lucidly written book features entire tonal compositions, one per chapter, analyzed on several levels simultaneously. The author builds up from very simple musical forms, skillfully leading the reader through a measure-by-measure, indeed often beat-by-beat or note-by-note, analysis. The pieces span the period from Corelli to Debussy and hence illus-trate both the flexibility and the historical development of the tonal system. A concluding essay projects this development into the twentieth century, with implications for the analysis of nontonal music. The music discussed in five of the twelve chapters is supplied; the rest of the compositions are standard works.

Contents:

Analysis of a typical tonal progression

Analysis of a theme from a Haydn symphony

Analysis of a complete melody by Corelli

Analysis of Chopin : Prelude in E minor, opus 28, no. 4

Analysis of Bach : Two-part invention in D minor

Analysis of a Schubert song

Analysis of Chopin : Mazurka in F, opus 68, no. 3 (Posth.)

Analysis of Beethoven : Piano sonata in C minor, opus 13 ("Pathetique"), second movement

Analysis of Mozart : Piano sonata in G, K. 283, first movement

Analysis of Brahms : Intermezzo, opus 76, no. 7 for piano

A study of the end of Act I of Wagner's Die Walküre

Analysis of Debussy : Prelude VIII for piano (Book I).

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-253-05104-5

OCLC:

654571693