TWENTIETH- - Synapse Music

Materials and Techniques of
TWENTIETH-
CENTURY
MUSIC
THIRD EDI TIO N
Stefan Kostka
Unlike most other books on the subject, th is survey of music, si nce 1900, is organized
according to compositional methods and analytical techniques rather than historical
movements. This text can be used on its own, or it can complement a historical survey
by giving the student hands-on compositional and analytical experience with a great
variety of post-nineteenth-century styles,
Author Stefan Kostka covers music from the early 1900s through movements such
as minimalism and the new tonality of the late twentieth and early twenty-first
centuries, In this updated edition, he supports the discussions with well over 100
examples from music literature, many of them new to this edition, Most of the
examples are currently available on recordings,
Fully explained are:
• scale formations • serial and nonserial atonality
• chords and simultaneities • electronic music
• melody and voice leading • minimalism
• harmonic progression and tonality • the resurgence of tonality
• rhythm
• many other essential aspects of modern music
Throughout the text, drills, analyses, composition assignments. and suggested furth er
readings help the reader to master the material covered.
Also available:
A nthology of Music for Analysis
First Edition, 2004
Stefan Kostka and Roger G raybill
The twentieth-century portion of this popular anthology devotes 160 pages to thirtyfive
works by composers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries,
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