Musical Form and Analysis: Time, Pattern, Proportion
Musical Form and Analysis: Time, Pattern, Proportion by Glenn Spring
English | 1 Aug. 2013 | ISBN: 147860722X | 410 Pages | PDF | 61.21 MB
English | 1 Aug. 2013 | ISBN: 147860722X | 410 Pages | PDF | 61.21 MB
Understanding the way music unfolds to the listener is a major key for unlocking the secrets of the composer’s art. Musical Form and Analysis, highly regarded and widely used for two decades, provides a balanced theoretical and philosophical approach that helps upper-level undergraduate music majors understand the structures and constructions of major musical forms. Spring and Hutcheson present all of the standard topics expected in such a text, but their approach offers a unique conceptual thrust that takes readers beyond mere analytical terminology and facts. Evocative rather than encyclopedic, the text is organized around three elements at work at all levels of music: time, pattern, and proportion. Well-chosen examples and direct, well-crafted assignments reinforce techniques. A 140-page anthology of music for in-depth analysis provides a wide range of carefully selected works.