Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 667 pages
- Published by: Dover Publications June 1, 1962
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0486222756
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0486222752
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Book Dimensions:
8.3 x 5.2 x 1.5 inches
- Weighs: 1.5 pounds
Product Description
Extends the Schenker method to modern, medieval, renaissance music. Tonal organization, analyzes over 500 pieces, connects theory and composition.
Reader Reviews
i believe we are biological machines. We process stimuli from our environment in parallel processing neural nets called brains. this is done so that we have appropriate motor output for our environment. concepts are essentially processing categories of our brains. the concepts we have reflect certain efficient ways of processing environmental stimuli, ways that WORK. the most successful concepts are the ones that work. when it comes to music composition, the concepts in this book WORK. though some criticize and say a host of difficulties and nuances are subsumed under some pretty broad strokes, that ultimately doesn't matter. because suspended maj 9th don't matter. music that moves matters. this book focuses on the motion in music. the basic idea is that harmony indicates certain stopping points, like the hard bones of an organism. but the motion between these points, the flesh as it were, is counterpoint. bones and flesh, structure and motion, crystallization and fluidity, harmony and counterpoint. that's the idea. will change the way you hear music. very, very deep. very, very good. these ideas are very close to an explication of how composers think.
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