Comprehensive Musical Analysis

Description

The Purpose and Nature of Analysis -- Stylistic Norms -- The Nature of Analysis -- Analysis of 20th-Century Music -- The Basic Steps of Analysis -- The Analytical Method -- The Musical Elements -- The Generative Process -- Microanalysis -- Middle-Analysis -- Macroanalysis -- A Demonstration Analysis -- Reductive Linear Analysis -- Foreground -- Verticalization and Octave Displacement -- Middle-Ground -- Rationale of Reductive Graphics -- Practical Usage -- Substructural Units of Music -- Motives -- Phrases and Cadences -- Phrase Structure -- Period and Phrase-Group Structure -- Normative Structures -- Binary Form -- Three Part Forms -- Rondo Form -- Sonata Form -- Variants of Sonata Form -- Concerto Patterns -- Variation Forms -- Contrapuntal Works -- Melody and Rhythm -- Range, Tessitura, and Profile -- Scales and Intervals -- Density -- Melodic Pulse -- Macrorhythm -- Harmony -- Micro- and Middle-Analysis of Harmony -- Harmonic Macroanalysis -- Harmonic Rhythm -- Harmonic Analysis of Twentieth-Century Music -- Post-Diatonic Tonal Structure -- Twelve-Tone Analysis -- Electronic Music -- Set Theory -- Counterpoint -- Early Polyphonic Practices -- Analysis of Renaissance Polyphony -- Tonal Counterpoint -- Tonal Answers -- Counterpoint in the Twentieth Century -- The Element of Sound -- Timbre -- Dynamics -- Texture -- The Factors of Sound Combined -- An Approach to Musical Sound in Analysis -- Indices of Sound -- Evaluation of Sound -- Sample Analysis for Sound of a Twentieth-Century Work -- Relevance -- Synthesis and Evaluation.