Materials and Techniques of Post-Tonal Music

Materials and Techniques of Post-Tonal Music provides the most comprehensive introduction to post-tonal music and its analysis available. Covering music from the end of the 19th century through the beginning of the 21st, it offers students a clear guide to understanding the diverse and innovative compositional strategies that emerged in the post-tonal era, from Impressionism to computer music. This sixth edition has been updated throughout with new musical examples, insights from the latest scholarship, and improvements to pedagogy, featuring: - An array of new examples and references to music by underrepresented composers, and examples from contemporary music - A reordering of chapters, so that concepts related to pitch-class set theory are now introduced earlier and reinforced systematically in later chapters - A revision of exercises to ensure accessibility and aid in student understanding The accompanying online resources provide links to recordings of musical examples discussed in the text, and a manual for instructors covering all of the exercises in each chapter. This edition now includes additional workbook pages as an online resource. Offering accessible explanations of complex concepts, Materials and Techniques of Post-Tonal Music, Sixth Edition is an essential text for all students of post-tonal music theory.

Stefan Kostka is Professor Emeritus of Music Theory at the Butler School of Music at The University of Texas at Austin. Matthew Santa is Professor and Division Head of Music Theory at the Texas Tech University School of Music.

PREFACE 1 THE TWILIGHT OF THE TONAL SYSTEM INTRODUCTION DIATONIC TONAL MUSIC CHROMATIC TONAL MUSIC SOME ASPECTS OF CHROMATIC HARMONY SUSPENDED TONALITY AND ATONALITY SUMMARY MUSIC FROM THE CHAPTER IN CHRONOLOGICAL CONTEXT NOTES EXERCISES 2 SCALE FORMATIONS IN POST-TONAL MUSIC INTRODUCTION FIVE-NOTE SCALES SIX-NOTE SCALES SEVEN-NOTE SCALES: THE DIATONIC MODES OTHER SEVEN-NOTE SCALES EIGHT-NOTE SCALES THE CHROMATIC SCALE MICROTONAL SCALES SCALAR TRANSFORMATIONS OTHER POSSIBILITIES SUMMARY MUSIC FROM THE CHAPTER IN CHRONOLOGICAL CONTEXT NOTES EXERCISES 3 THE VERTICAL DIMENSION: CHORDS AND SIMULTANEITIES INTRODUCTION CONVENTIONAL TERTIAN SONORITIES TERTIAN CHORDS WITH ADDED NOTES TERTIAN CHORDS WITH SPLIT CHORD MEMBERS OPEN-5TH CHORDS QUARTAL AND QUINTAL CHORDS SECUNDAL CHORDS MIXED-INTERVAL CHORDS WHOLE-TONE CHORDS POLYCHORDS SUMMARY MUSIC FROM THE CHAPTER IN CHRONOLOGICAL CONTEXT NOTES EXERCISES 4 THE HORIZONTAL DIMENSION: MELODY AND VOICE LEADING INTRODUCTION SOME NEW STYLISTIC FEATURES OF POST-TONAL MELODY SOME ASPECTS OF MELODIC ORGANIZATION VOICE LEADING IN POST-TONAL MUSIC DISSONANCE TREATMENT TINTINNABULI TECHNIQUE ALIGNED INTERVAL CYCLES SUMMARY MUSIC FROM THE CHAPTER IN CHRONOLOGICAL CONTEXT NOTES EXERCISES 5 HARMONIC PROGRESSION AND TONALITY INTRODUCTION TRADITIONAL APPROACHES TO HARMONIC PROGRESSION NEW APPROACHES TO HARMONIC PROGRESSION ESTABLISHING A TONAL CENTER TERTIAN AND NONTERTIAN PITCH-CENTRICITY POLYTONALITY PANDIATONICISM ATONALITY NONHARMONIC MUSIC SUMMARY MUSIC FROM THE CHAPTER IN CHRONOLOGICAL CONTEXT NOTES EXERCISES 6 NONSERIAL ATONALITY INTRODUCTION CHARACTERISTICS OF ATONAL MUSIC PITCH-CLASS SETS PITCH-CLASS INTERVALS OCTAVE EQUIVALENCE, TRANSPOSITIONAL EQUIVALENCE, AND NORMAL ORDER INVERSIONAL EQUIVALENCE AND BEST NORMAL ORDER PRIME FORMS AND SET CLASSES THE INTERVAL-CLASS VECTOR FORTE LABEL SUBSETS AGGREGATES MORE ABOUT SEGMENTATION INTEGRATING SETS AND SEGMENTS IN ANALYSIS SET THEORY IN OTHER CONTEXTS SUMMARY MUSIC FROM THE CHAPTER IN CHRONOLOGICAL CONTEXT NOTES EXERCISES 7 DEVELOPMENTS IN RHYTHM INTRODUCTION WRITTEN RHYTHM AND PERCEIVED RHYTHM CHANGING TIME SIGNATURES NONTRADITIONAL TIME SIGNATURES POLYMETER AMETRIC MUSIC ADDED VALUES AND NONRETROGRADABLE RHYTHMS TEMPO MODULATION AND POLYTEMPO SERIALIZED RHYTHM AND ISORHYTHM THE NEW COMPLEXITY SUMMARY MUSIC FROM THE CHAPTER IN CHRONOLOGICAL CONTEXT NOTES EXERCISES 8 FORM IN POST-TONAL MUSIC INTRODUCTION ONE-PART FORM AND BINARY FORM TERNARY FORM RONDO FORMS OTHER PART FORMS SONATA FORM SECTIONAL VARIATIONS CONTINUOUS VARIATIONS CANON AND FUGUE PROPORTION: THE GOLDEN MEAN NONTHEMATIC DELINEATORS OF MUSICAL FORM NONORGANIC APPROACHES TO MUSICAL FORM SUMMARY MUSIC FROM THE CHAPTER IN CHRONOLOGICAL CONTEXT NOTES EXERCISES 9 IMPORTS AND ALLUSIONS INTRODUCTION INFLUENCES FROM THE PAST INFLUENCES FROM FOLK MUSIC, JAZZ, AND ROCK MUSIC FROM OTHER CULTURES SUMMARY MUSIC FROM THE CHAPTER IN CHRONOLOGICAL CONTEXT NOTES EXERCISES 10 CLASSICAL SERIALISM INTRODUCTION BASIC TERMINOLOGY THE TWELVE-TONE MATRIX A FIRST EXAMPLE ANALYZING A ROW COMPOSITIONAL USES OF THE ROW ROW SUCCESSION COMBINATORIALITY THE ANALYSIS OF SERIAL MUSIC SUMMARY MUSIC FROM THE CHAPTER IN CHRONOLOGICAL CONTEXT NOTES EXERCISES 11 TIMBRE AND TEXTURE: ACOUSTIC INTRODUCTION NEW TIMBRAL EFFECTS FROM TRADITIONAL INSTRUMENTS WIND INSTRUMENTS STRINGED INSTRUMENTS PERCUSSION INSTRUMENTS THE PIANO THE VOICE INSTRUMENTATION AND ORCHESTRATION TRADITIONAL TEXTURES AND COMPOUND TEXTURES POINTILLISM, STRATIFICATION, AND SOUND-MASS SPECTRALISM SUMMARY MUSIC FROM THE CHAPTER IN CHRONOLOGICAL CONTEXT NOTES EXERCISES 12 TIMBRE AND TEXTURE: ELECTRONIC INTRODUCTION CONCRETE MUSIC THE CLASSICAL ELECTRONIC MUSIC STUDIO DIGITAL SYNTHESIS THE DEVELOPMENT OF MIDI SAMPLERS, PERSONAL COMPUTERS, AND RECENT TRENDS IN DIGITAL SYNTHESIS TAPE AND INSTRUMENT, LIVE PERFORMANCE, AND INTERACTIVE COMPUTER MUSIC NOTATION OF ELECTRONIC MUSIC SUMMARY MUSIC FROM THE CHAPTER IN CHRONOLOGICAL CONTEXT NOTES EXERCISES 13 SERIALISM AFTER 1945 INTRODUCTION INTEGRAL SERIALISM INTEGRAL SERIALISM IN PERSPECTIVE OTHER ASPECTS OF SERIALISM MUSIC AFTER SERIALISM SUMMARY MUSIC FROM THE CHAPTER IN CHRONOLOGICAL CONTEXT NOTES EXERCISES 14 THE ROLES OF CHANCE AND CHOICE IN POST-TONAL MUSIC INTRODUCTION CHANCE IN COMPOSITION CHOICE IN PERFORMANCE SOME EXAMPLES OF PERFORMER INDETERMINACY GRAPHIC SCORES AND TEXT SCORES MUSIC ON THE FRINGE SUMMARY MUSIC FROM THE CHAPTER IN CHRONOLOGICAL CONTEXT NOTES EXERCISES 15 MINIMALISM AND BEYOND INTRODUCTION MINIMALISM BEYOND MINIMALISM SUMMARY MUSIC FROM THE CHAPTER IN CHRONOLOGICAL CONTEXT NOTES EXERCISES APPENDIX: PRIME FORMS, FORTE LABELS, AND INTERVAL-CLASS VECTORS BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX