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Author Wulstan, David, author

Title Listen again : a new history of music / David Wulstan
Published Lanham, Maryland : Rowman and Littlefield, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 458 pages)
Contents Some matters of terminology and other preliminaries -- The recognition of key -- Tonal balance and minor tonality : the use of sequences; dissonance -- The rule of the octave : harmony and rhythm -- The enhanced tonic : fugal technique and tonality -- Complex key -- The classical style -- The classical style -- Classical to romantic : Beethoven and Schubert -- The romantic era (1) : Chopin, Brahms and Mendelssohn -- The romantic era (2) : the age of Wagner -- The perception of music -- The twentieth century (1) : the palette of Debussy -- The twentieth century (2) : themes and theories in the music of Stravinsky and some other composers -- The twentieth century (3) : techniques and treatises : Bartók, Hindemith, and others -- Saturday night and Sunday morning -- Two cultures -- Mediæval to Renaissance -- Renaissance to Baroque -- Back to the future
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-431) and index
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Subject Music -- History and criticism.
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Classical.
MUSIC -- Reference.
Music
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021676910
ISBN 9781442237506
1442237503
9781442237506