Music Theory, Analysis, and Society: Selected Essays
- Author: Morgan, Robert P.
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Contents
- Contents: Introduction. Part I Schenkerian and Other Theory: Dissonant prolongation: theoretical and compositional precedents
- Schenker and the theoretical tradition: the concept of musical reduction
- Schenker and the 20th century: a modernist perspective
- Musical time/musical space. Part II Music Analysis: Chopin's modular forms
- Circular form in the Tristan prelude
- Ives and Mahler: mutual responses at the end of an era
- Chasing the scent: the tonality in Liszt's Blume and Duft
- Two early Schoenberg songs: monotonality, multitonality, and schwebende Tonalitat
- 'The things our fathers loved': Charles Ives and the European tradition
- On the analysis of recent music. Part III Music and Society: Tradition, anxiety, and the current musical scene
- Secret languages: the roots of musical modernism
- 'A new musical reality': futurism, modernism, and 'the art of noises'
- Rethinking musical culture: canonic reformulations in a post-tonal age. Index.