Materials and techniques of twentieth-century music

Unlike most other books on the subject, this survey of music, since 1900, is organized according to compositional methods and analytical techniques rather than historical movements. This text can be used on its own, or it can complement a historical survey by giving the student hands-on compositional and analytical experience with a great variety of post-nineteenth-century styles. Author Stefan Kostka covers music from the early 1900s through movements such as minimalism and the new tonality of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. In this updated edition, he supports the discussions with well over 100 examples from music literature, many of them new to this edition. Most of the examples are currently available on recordings. The twilight of the tonal system -- Scale formations in twentieth-century music -- The vertical dimension -- The horizontal dimension : melody and voice leading -- Harmonic progression and tonality -- Developments in rhythm -- Form in twentieth-century music -- Imports and allusions -- Nonserial atonality -- Classical serialism -- Timbre and texture : acoustic -- Timbre and texture : electronic -- Serialism after 1945 -- The roles of chance and choice in twentieth-century music -- Minimalism and beyond