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Informationen zum Autor E. Eugene Helm is professor emeritus in the school of music, University of Maryland, College Park. He is founder of its ethnomusicology program and co-founder and coordinating editor of The Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Edition (Oxford University Press, 1982-1990). He is author of various other works on C.P.E. Bach. Klappentext The full range of Western music is explored through 21 concise chapters on such topics as melody, harmony, counterpoint, texture, melody types, improvisation, music notation, free imitation, canon and fugue, vibration and its relation to harmony, tonality, and the place of music in architecture and astronomy. Intended for amateurs and professionals, concert-goers and conductors, Helm offers in down-to-earth language an explanation of the foundations of our Western music heritage, deepening our understanding and the listening experience of it for all. Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefaceChapter 1: Melody is Pure but Not So SimpleChapter 2: Harmony, Unlike Melody, is Pure Only in TheoryChapter 3: Our Usual Musical Menu is Melody with Subsidiary AccompanimentChapter 4: Counterpoint is a Harmonious Marriage of Independent MelodiesChapter 5: TextureChapter 6: Special Mixtures of TextureChapter 7: East is East is Melody; West is West is HarmonyChapter 8: The Universal Patterns of Melody: Melody TypesChapter 9: Of the Earth, Earthy: Folk Music and its Role in CompositionChapter 10: Improvisation ForeverChapter 11: The Big Difference: Music NotationChapter 12: Canon, Free Imitation, Fugue: A Path to Musical MeaningChapter 13: Free Imitation: Canon with a Grain of SaltChapter 14: Fugue: The Whole Contrapuntal Bag of Tricks Chapter 15: Harmony, the Governing PrincipleChapter 16: Music in ArchitectureChapter 17: Music in AstronomyChapter 18: Vibration, the New ParadigmChapter 19: The Harmonic SeriesChapter 20: Mapping the New Tonal TerritoryChapter 21: Tonality is Still HereNotesSuggest Further ReadingAbout the Author...
