Musical Form and Analysis Time, Pattern, Proportion 1st Edition by Glenn Spring

Musical Form and Analysis Time, Pattern, Proportion 1st Edition by Glenn SpringBy: Glenn Spring; Jere HutchesonPublisher: Waveland PressPrint ISBN: 9781478607229, 147860722Xother ISBN: 9781478611387, 1478611383Edition: 1stUnderstanding the way music unfolds to the listener is a major key for unlocking the secrets of the composer?s art. Musical Form and Analysis, highly regarded and widely used for two decades, provides a balanced theoretical and philosophical approach that helps upper-level undergraduate music majors understand the structures and constructions of major musical forms. Spring and Hutcheson present all of the standard topics expected in such a text, but their approach offers a unique conceptual thrust that takes readers beyond mere analytical terminology and facts. Evocative rather than encyclopedic, the text is organized around three elements at work at all levels of music: time, pattern, and proportion. Well-chosen examples and direct, well-crafted assignments reinforce techniques. A 140-page anthology of music for in-depth analysis provides a wide range of carefully selected works.