Musical Form (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Ebenezer Prout

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330340647 ISBN 13 : 9781330340646

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Unlock the building blocks of musical form with clear, practical guidance.

This guide explains how phrases, cadences, and rhythm work together to shape music you listen to and analyze. It uses concrete, example-filled explanations to show how composers craft symmetrical sentences, extended cadences, and rhythmical variety without losing coherence.

Readers will learn to spot fore- and after-phrases, understand cadence types, and see how irregular rhythms can be justified by underlying principles. The book walks through familiar passages from master works, helping you see the craft behind the sound.

• Plain-language explanations of phrase structure and cadence
• Techniques for recognizing extended and irregular rhythms
• Illustrative examples from Haydn, Mozart, Mendelssohn, and Schubert

Ideal for students of music theory and thoughtful listeners who want a practical, hands-on approach to musical form.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from Musical Form

The preceding volumes of this series have dealt chiefly with matters of musical theory, though theory and practice are so closely connected that it is impossible to draw a hard and fast line of demarcation between them. The present volume, on the other hand, is almost practical, and points of theory are hardly touched upon.

None of the earlier works of the series have involved anything like the amount of labour in their preparation that has been needful for this one. Very little is to be found in English musical literature concerning the subjects which occupy the greater part of the volume; and the materials had to be compiled partly from large German treatises on composition, which, however interesting and instructive, can certainly not be considered as "light reading," and, to a still larger extent, from the careful and often minute analysis of the works of the great masters. This, it is hoped, will be deemed a sufficient apology for the delay in the appearance of the present volume.

In dealing with the subject of Musical Form, the author felt that the only satisfactory and logical method was to begin with the rudiments. Rhythm - that is, the more or less regular recurrence of cadence, is as much an essential of music as it is of poetry. The first part of this volume is therefore devoted to an examination of the fundamental principles of Rhythm, as shown in the construction of musical phrases and sentences. Such an examination would have been incomplete without the analysis of a musical sentence into its ultimate constituents - the motives. In his treatment of this part of the subject the author must express his deep indebtedness to the researches of Dr. Hugo Riemann. He believes that this distinguished German theorist has been the first to recognized fully the true nature of the motive, and the connection of its unaccented notes, not with the preceding, but with the following accented note.

Présentation de l'éditeur

This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330340647
• ISBN 13: 9781330340646
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 274
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