Contemporary tone-structures / by Allen Forte.
| Author/creator | Forte, Allen |
| Format | Musical Score |
| Publication Info | New York : Teachers College, Columbia University, 1955. |
| Description | xii, 194 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Teachers College studies in education Teachers College studies in education. ^A26562 |
| Contents | Analysis and contemporary music -- Fundamental considerations. Some important characteristics of western tone-structures -- The postulational basis of traditional music -- The concept of triadic tonality -- Structural postulates of contemporary music -- The analytic procedure. Evalutaion of individual tones in a linear context -- Interpretation; some general types of structural events -- The analytic reductions -- On terminology -- The aural sense; its role in analysis -- Igor Stravinsky. Larghetto from The Five Fingers, 1921 (score and analytic sketches) ; Preliminary survey - general characteristics ; The first reduction ; Structural roles of the individual lines ; Concurrence of structural events in the individual lines ; Overview of the work ; Structural background ; Functional relationships ; Duplication of tonal patterns in the large and small spans ; Phrasing and dynamics ; Form -- Darius Milhaud. Midi from Une Journee, 1946 (score and analytic sketches) ; The major structural events ; Techniques ; The structural background ; Structural postulates ; Aural test of the analysis ; The lower parts ; Registral relationships ; Simultaneity ; Rhythm ; Phrasing ; Dynamics -- Roger Sessions. Number III from From My Diary, 1939 (score and analytic sketches) ; Preliminary survey ; Structure of the individual lines ; Sequence of events in the total structure ; The structural background ; The germinal line ; Compositional postulates ; Functional relationships ; Techniques ; Rhythm ; Problematic aspects of the work -- Aaron Copland. Number 3 from Four Piano Blues, 1948 (score and analytic sketches) ; The analytic sketches ; Techniques ; Other aspects of the middleground ; Relative importance of individual lines ; Horizontal connections ; Rhythm ; Examination of measures 1-4 with traditional techniques ; Structural postulates ; Sequence of major structural events -- Bela Bartok. Number VIII from Fourteen Bagatelles, op. 6, 1908 (score and analytic sketches) ; Major structural events ; Recurrent motions ; Techniques ; Linear generation ; Linear continuity and discontinuity ; Structural background ; Problematic nature of the basic structure ; Re-examination of the foreground ; Concluding remarks -- Paul Hindemith. Fuga undecima in B from Ludus Tonalis, 1942 (score and analytic sketches) ; The foreground ; The basic elements ; The structural background ; Triadic tonality ; Middleground ; Concluding observations -- Arnold Schoenberg. Phantasy for Violin with Piano Accompaniment, op. 47, 1951 (analytic sketches) ; Pre-compositional procedures ; Compositional procedures ; Problems of analysis; foreground-background ; The primary set ; Synopsis of the available forms and transpositions of the set ; Sketch 53 ; Sketch 54 ; Sketches 59-65 ; Rhythm ; Major structural characteristics ; Structural development in the twelve-tone technique -- Igor Stravinsky. Petrouchka, 1911 (analytic sketches) ; Overview of the work ; Part IV in enlargement ; Two interesting features ; Summary of techniques ; The general structural concept in Petrouchka -- Bela Bartok. Fourth String Quartet (I), 1928 (analytic sketches) ; The primary unit ; The dynamic event: illusory expansion ; Structural adjustment ; Formal divisions ; The basic postulate ; The basic technique: displacement ; The general structural concept ; Tonal distance ; Rhythm -- Explanation of markings and abbreviations used in the analytic sketches. |
| Abstract | This book undertakes two related tasks: to provide effective procedures and techniques for the analysis of contemporary tone-structures, and to demonstrate the application of those procedures and techniques in a number of intensive analysis. |
| LCCN | 55012410 |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Music | Item has been checked out | ML197.F7 C6 1955 | Due 09/14/2026 | Want This? |