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YOU will find a majority of the words in this book devoted to the analysis of musical structure. Many students of music would hold that all the words, except those which deal with the historical or incidental background of a given composition, should be devoted to its structural analysis. Looked at...

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Published inMasterworks of the Orchestral Repertoire p. 3
Main Author DONALD N. FERGUSON
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published University of Minnesota Press 25.03.1968
EditionNED - New edition
Subjects
Art criticism
Art theory
Arts
Behavioral sciences
Cognitive psychology
Compositional techniques
Contrapuntal motion
Counterpoint
Intuition
Music
Music analysis
Music composition
Music criticism
Music theory
Musical expression
Musical forms
Musical rhythm
Musical structure
Musical time
Performing arts
Psychology
Tonal harmony
Tonal theory
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Summary:YOU will find a majority of the words in this book devoted to the analysis of musical structure. Many students of music would hold that all the words, except those which deal with the historical or incidental background of a given composition, should be devoted to its structural analysis. Looked at in reverse, this opinion is equivalent to a contention that in the music itself nothing else than structure, which in its highest aspect is form, demands analysis. Yet you will also find, often mingled with the analytical comments, many incidental references to the character — the apparent expressive purport — of
ISBN:9780816604678
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