A Guide to Musical Analysis

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Oxford University Press, 1994 - 376 páginas
This extremely practical introduction to musical analysis explores the factors that give unity and coherence to musical masterpieces. Having first identified and explained the most important analytical methods, Nicholas Cook examines given compositions from the last two hundred years to show how different analytical procedures suit different types of music.
 

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Acknowledgments
7
Traditional methods of analysis
10
Schenkerian analysis
27
Psychological approaches to analysis
67
Formal approaches to analysis
116
Techniques of comparative analysis
183
What does musical analysis tell us?
215
Worked examples of analysis
235
Analyzing music in sonata form
260
Some problem pieces
335
Suggestions for further reading
372
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Nicholas Cook is at University of Southampton.

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