Analyzing atonal music : pitch-class set theory and its contexts / Michiel Schuijer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schuijer, Michiel, author.

Series:

Eastman studies in music.

Eastman studies in music

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Musical analysis--Data processing.

Musical analysis.

Atonality.

Computer composition (Music).

Musical pitch.

Set theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 306 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For the past forty years, pitch-class set theory has served as a frame of reference for the study of atonal music, through the efforts of Allen Forte, Milton Babbitt, and others. It has also been the subject of sometimes furious debates between music theorists and historically oriented musicologists, debates that only helped heighten its profile. Today, as oppositions have become less clear-cut, and other analytical approaches to music are gaining prominence, the time has come for a history of pitch-class set theory, its dissemination, and its role in the reception of the music of Schoenberg, Stravinsky, and other modernist composers."Analyzing Atonal Music: Pitch-Class Set Theory and Its Contexts" combines thorough discussions of musical concepts with an engaging historical narrative. Pitch-class theory is treated here as part of the musical and cultural landscape of the United States. The theory's remarkable rise to authority is related to the impact of the computer on the study of music in the 1960s, and to the American university in its double role as protector of high culture and provider of mass education.

Contents:

Pitch-class set theory : an overture

Objects and entities

Operations

Equivalence

Similarity

Inclusion

"Blurring the boundaries" : analysis, performance, and history

Mise-en-scène.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Feb 2023).

Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-292) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-89494-3

9786612894947

1-58046-711-3

OCLC:

680036275