The Piece as a Whole - Studies in Holistic Musical Analysis

List of contents

Preface
Introduction
Chopin: Prelude No. 7 in A Major
The Split Fifth: A Cautionary Tale
Chopin: Prelude No. 4 in E Minor
Meaning in Music
Some Mozart Excerpts
Beethoven: Fifth Symphony
Three Beethoven Excerpts
Aesthetics: Aesthetics Meets Ethics
Two Schumann Songs and a Bit of Brahms
J. S. Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I
Wagner: Prelude to Tristan and Isolde
Debussy: Prelude to The Afternoon of a Faun
The Analysis of Twentieth-Century Music
Suggestions for Further Reading
Index

About the author

HUGH AITKEN recently retired as Professor of Music at The William Paterson College of New Jersey. He studied composition at The Juilliard School and taught there from 1950 to 1970. He is the composer of over eighty works. His publishers include Oxford University Press, Theodore Presser Co., and ECS Music.

Product details

• Authors: Hugh Aitken, Aitken Hugh, Unknown
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.10.1997
• EAN: 9780313300615
• ISBN: 978-0-313-30061-5
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music theory; MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Theory, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, Theory of music & musicology, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Theory of music and musicology, Western "classical" music, Popular Culture: Music and Performing Arts