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The Structure of Atonal Music
Allen Forte
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Description for The Structure of Atonal Music
Paperback. Describes and cites examples of pitch-class sets and relations in atonal music. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations, music, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 253 x 173 x 17. Weight in Grams: 432.
“For some years now, a group of American composers and theorists including Babbitt, Teitelbaum, Martino, and Lewin, have been elaborating mathematically based procedures for the analysis of pitch structures in atonal music. In this book, Allen Forte expands the results of their work into a comprehensive theoretical survey illustrated with examples from a wide range of composers.”—Times Higher Education Supplement
“An attempt to ‘provide a general theoretical framework’ for the description and analysis of musical pitch-structures that resist interpretation in terms of conventional tonal or 12-note serial systems…. Not the least achievement of this book may be to establish the ... Read more
“For some years now, a group of American composers and theorists including Babbitt, Teitelbaum, Martino, and Lewin, have been elaborating mathematically based procedures for the analysis of pitch structures in atonal music. In this book, Allen Forte expands the results of their work into a comprehensive theoretical survey illustrated with examples from a wide range of composers.”—Times Higher Education Supplement
“An attempt to ‘provide a general theoretical framework’ for the description and analysis of musical pitch-structures that resist interpretation in terms of conventional tonal or 12-note serial systems…. Not the least achievement of this book may be to establish the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1977
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300021202
SKU
V9780300021202
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