Musical Form - Couverture souple

Prout, Ebenezer

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1410224619 ISBN 13 : 9781410224613

Editeur : University Press of the Pacific, 2005

Synopsis

CONTENTS Introduction Rhythm--Sentences and Phrases The Subdivisions of a Musical Sentence-- Sections and Motives Modulation-- Key-Relationship The Means of Modulation-- Modulation by Means of Triads The Construction of Simple Sentences with Regular Rhythm Irregular and Complex Rhythms The Simple Binary Form The Simple Ternary Form Ebenezer Prout (1835-1909) was Professor of Harmony and Composition at the Royal Academy of Music, and Professor of Music in the University of Dublin. He is also the author of Applied Form, Harmony: Its Theory and Practice and Counterpoint: Strict and Free. He edited the Monthly Musical Review (1871-1875), and was a music critic for The Academy (1874-79) and The Athenaeum (1879-89).

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Music Library r.r, :. PREFACE 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 tietween them. The present volume, on the other hand, is almost entirely practical, and points of theory ar hardly touched upon. None of the earlier works of the series have involved anything like the anu.mnt of labour in their preparation that has been needful for this one. Very little is to be found in Enghsh 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 feU 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 Oerman theorist has been the first to recognize fully the true nature of the motive, and the connection of its unaccented no
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University Press of the Pacific
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1410224619
• ISBN 13: 9781410224613
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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