The craft of musical composition / by Paul Hindemith.
| Author/creator | Hindemith, Paul |
| Other author | Mendel, Arthur, 1905-1979, translator. |
| Other author | Ortmann, Otto, 1889-1979, translator. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Mainz : Schott, ©1941-42. |
| Description | 2 volumes : illustrations (music) folded tables, diagrams ; 21 cm |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Unterweisung im Tonsatz. English |
| Series | Mark Taggart collection Mark Taggart collection. UNAUTHORIZED |
| Contents | Book I. Theoretical part (English translation by Arthur Mendel) -- Book II. Exercises in two-part writing (English translation by Otto Ortmann). |
| Contents | Book I. Theoretical part. Chapter I: Introductory -- Chapter II: The medium. General considerations ; Overtones ; Nature of the overtone series ; The triad ; Paths to scale-formation ; Tempered tuning ; Earlier attempts at scale-formation ; New proposal ; The seventh overtone ; Derivation of the remaining tones ; The comma ; Perspective ; A forward glance -- Chapter III: The nature of the building stones. Series 1 ; Combination tones ; Inversions ; Interval roots ; The minor triad ; Seconds and sevenths, the tritone ; Significance of the intervals ; Harmonic and melodic value of the intervals ; The conventional theory of harmony ; Chord analysis ; Subdivision of the chord-groups ; The value of chords -- Chapter IV: Harmony. Movement in chord-successions ; The two-voice framework ; Harmonic fluctuation ; Movement in chord-connection, expressed in root-progressions ; Progressions involving tritone chords ; Family relationship: the construction of tonal spheres ; The cadence ; Larger harmonic relations: degree-progression ; Modulation ; Atonality and polytonality ; Practical application ; Non-chord tones -- Chapter V: Melody. Theory of melody ; Chordal association ; Melody degree-progression ; Seconds ; Step-progression ; Conclusion -- Chapter VI: Analyses. Dies irae (Gregorian melody), melodic analysis -- Guillaume de Machaut, Ballade "Il m'est avis", complete analysis -- J.S. Bach, Three-part invention in F minor, harmonic analysis -- Richard Wagner, "Tristan und Isolde", Prelude, harmonic and melodic analysis -- Igor Stravinsky, Piano sonata 1924, first movement, harmonic analysis -- Arnold Schoenberg, Klavierstuck, op. 33a, harmonic analysis -- Paul Hindemith, "Mathis der Maler", Prelude, complete analysis. |
| General note | Translation of: Unterweisung im Tonsatz. |
| LCCN | 41020743 |
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