Music Theory in Concept and Practice

Abstract

Part 1 Historical and theoretical essays - historical perspectives: chord, collection and set in 20th-century theory, Jonathan W. Bernard Scriabin's music - structure as prism for mystical philosophy, James Baker tonality - a conflict of forces, Patricia Carpenter how is neoclassicism defined?, Pieter C. van den Toorn modernist aesthetics, modernist music - some analytical perspectives, Arnold Whittall. Part 2 Historical and theoretical essays - theoretical perspectives: salient features, John Rothgeb synthesis and association, structure and design and multi-movement compositions, David Neumeyer tonal/atonal - cognitive strategies for recognizing transposed melodies in varying tonal contexts, Elizabeth West Marvin voice leading in atonal music, Joseph Staus K, Kh, and beyond, Robert Morris. Part 3 Analytical studies - the tonal repertoire: the sub-mediant as third divider - its representation at different structural levels, David Beach the form of Chopin's Polonaise-Fantasy, William Rothstein tracing the scent - tonality in Liszt's Blume und Duft, Robert Morgan reflections on a few good tunes - linear progressions and intervallic patterns in popular songs and jazz, Stephen Gilbert. Part 4 20th-century music: bitonality, pentatonicism and diatonicism in a work by Milhaud, Daniel Harrison signposts on Webern's path to atonality - the Dehmel Lieder (1906-08) some notes on Pierrot Lunaire, David Lewin form and idea in Schoenberg's Phantasy, Christopher Hasty elision and structural levels in Peter Maxwell Davies's Dark Angels, Ann McNamee.