Engaging Music Essays in Music Analysis

by Stein, Deborah

• ISBN13: 9780195170108
• ISBN10: 0195170105
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-11-04
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The first collection of its kind, Engaging Music: Essays in Music Analysis includes twenty-two selections by highly esteemed contemporary music theorists, sixteen of which were written especially for this volume. Featuring work by such luminaries as Charles Burkhart, Edward T. Cone, AllenForte, David B. Lewin, and Carl Schachter, the book is an ideal text for undergraduate and graduate courses in form and analysis. It also serves as an invaluable reference for music teachers, students, and musicians. Opening with an introduction to writing analytical essays, Engaging Music then presents introductory readings that describe analytical approaches to rhythm, meter, and phrase; pitch (twelve-tone music); form in jazz and rock music; and musical ambiguity. The following essays offer exemplarymodels of analysis that cover a wide range of composers, from the Baroque (Purcell and Bach) and the Classical (Beethoven, Haydn, and Mozart) to the 19th-century (Brahms, Chopin, Schubert, Schumann, and Wagner) and the early 20th-century (Bartok, Schoenberg and Webern). The selections explore adiversity of genres--from opera to music for computer-generated tape--and a variety of analytical approaches, from Schenkerian to feminist. The volume also includes analyses of popular music (from jazz to a Sarah MacLachlan song) and of a relatively recent work by Barbara Kolb. A comprehensiveglossary defines terms and concepts that may be unfamiliar to students, and a selected bibliography suggests other appropriate readings. Reflecting the broad spectrum of current interests and perspectives in the field, Engaging Music provides a unique window into the multifaceted world of musictheory and analysis.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction to Writing Analytical Essays,
William Marvin	xi
PART I. Introduction to Analytical Topics and Techniques
Rhythm, Meter, and Phrase
1. The Phrase Rhythm of Chopin's A-flat Mazurka, Op. 59, No. 2,
Charles Burkhart	3	(10)
2. Hypermeter and Hypermetric Irregularity in the Songs of Josephine Lang,
Harald Krebs	13	(17)
Pitch
3. Schenker's Conception of Musical Structure,
Allen Forte	30	(6)
4. "Learn to Draw Bob Hope!" Mort Drucker, Arnold Schoenberg, and Twelve-Tone Music,
Andrew Mead	36	(14)
Form
5. Analyzing the Unity within Contrast: Chick Corea's "Starlight,"
Ramon Satyendra	50	(15)
6. Form in Rock Music: A Primer,
John Covach	65	(12)
Musical Ambiguity
7. Introduction to Musical Ambiguity,
Deborah Stein	77	(12)
8. Attacking a Brahms Puzzle,
Edward T. Cone	89	(10)
PART II. Model Essays: Text and Music
9. Figaro's Mistakes,
David B. Lewin	99	(11)
10. Motive and Text in Four Schubert Songs,
Carl Schachter	110	(12)
11. Isolde's Transfiguration in Words and Music,
Patrick McCreless	122	(14)
12. Meaning in a Popular Song: The Representation of Masochistic Desire in Sarah McLachlan's "Ice,"
Lori Burns	136	(13)
13. In Search of Purcell's Dido,
Janet Schmalfeldt	149	(18)
PART III. Model Essays: Instrumental
Performance and Analysis
14. The Presto from Bach's G-Minor Sonata for Violin Solo: Style, Rhythm, and Form in a Baroque
Moto Perpetuo, Joel Lester	167	(13)
15. Dramatic Progression in Haydn, Sonata No. 46 in A-flat,
Adagio, Marion A. Guck	180	(11)
Form
16. Formal and Expressive Intensification in Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 8, Second Movement,
Roger Graybill	191	(11)
17. Playing with Forms: Mozart's Rondo in D Major, K. 485,
William Rothstein	202	(13)
Pitch
18. Two Post-tonal Analyses, Webern, "Wie bin ich froh!" from Three Songs, Op. 25; Schoenberg, "Nacht," from Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21,
Joseph N. Straus	215	(11)
19. "This music crept by me upon the waters": Introverted Motives in Beethoven's "Tempest" Sonata,
Richard Cohn	226	(10)
20. "Rounding Up the Usual Suspects?": The Enigmatic Narrative of Chopin's C-sharp Minor Prelude,
Charles J. Smith	236	(17)
Texture
21. Texture and Timbre in Barbara Kolb's Millefoglie for Chamber Orchestra and Computer-Generated Tape,
Judith Lochhead	253	(20)
Scores	273	(54)
Glossary	327	(6)
Selected Bibliography	333	(10)
Index	343