Practical Approach to the Study of Form in Music

Peter Spencer,Peter M. Temko

ISBN 10: 0881338060 / ISBN 13: 9780881338065

Published by Waveland Pr Inc, 1994

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Practical Approach to the Study of Form in Music
• Publisher: Waveland Pr Inc
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0881338060
• ISBN 13: 9780881338065
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: very good

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Synopsis

Learning music's organizing principles . . . Approaching the study of form as an exercise in perceiving the interaction of a number of discrete musical events, Spencer and Temko's book embodies much more than a search for visual clues. Students of form develop perceptual tools that allow them to proceed from the aural experience to an understanding of the arch-principles upon which music is organized. The authors hold that the organizing principles of a given piece of music may be gleaned from studying: the internal attributes that give a section its specific identity; the functional relations between sections; the ordering of those sections.

Title of related interest from Waveland Press: Spring-Hutcheson, Musical Form and Analysis: Time, Pattern, Proportion (ISBN 9781478607229).

From the Back Cover

"I have long been searching for a book of this type. It covers the important points of structural analysis without the pedantic ramblings found in many texts." -- Michael Levi, College of St. Rose