Musical motives : a theory and method for analyzing shape in music / Brent Auerbach.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Auerbach, Brent Lawrence, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Musical analysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (400 pages) : illustrations (black and white).

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

Author Brent Auerbach look at the ways that motives - or the small-scale pitch and rhythm shapes ever-present in music-tie musical compositions together, and why we remember some more than others.

Contents:

Part I : the grounds for a discipline of motivic analysis

Introduction to motives

A brief history of motives - composition

A history of motives - theory and analysis

Part II : methods of motivic analysis

A universal nomenclature for pitch and rhythm motives

Basic motivic analysis

Interlude 1 : BMA narrative archetypes

Exemplars of basic motivic analysis

Interlude 2 : CMA narrative archetypes

Complex motivic analysis

Part III : analyses and conclusion

Analysis of three works in contrasting styles

Conclusion.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-752604-7

0-19-752605-5

0-19-752603-9

OCLC:

1246578366