Distinguished music theorist and composer David Lewin (1933-2003) applies the conceptual framework he developed in his earlier, innovative Generalized Musical Intervals and Transformations to the varied repertoire of the twentieth century in this stimulating and illustrative book. Analyzing the diverse compositions of four canonical composers--Simbolo from Dallapiccola's Quaderno musicale di Annalibera ; Stockhausen's Klavierstuck III ; Webern's Op. 10, No. 4; and Debussy's Feux d'articifice --Lewin brings forth structures which he calls "transformational networks" to reveal interesting and suggestive aspects of the music. In this complementary work, Lewin stimulates thought about the general methodology of musical analysis and issues of large-scale form as they relate to transformational analytic structuring. Musical Form and Transformation , first published in 1993 by Yale University Press, was the recipient of an ASCAP Deems Taylor Award.
Author(s): the late David Lewin
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 184
Contents......Page 8
Foreword......Page 7
Introduction......Page 10
CHAPTER 1 Serial Transformation Networks in Dallapiccola's "Simbolo"......Page 18
CHAPTER 2 Making and Using a Pcset Network for Stockhausen's Klavierstück III......Page 33
CHAPTER 3 Set Theory, Derivation, and Transformational Structures in Analyzing Webern's Opus 10, Number 4......Page 85
CHAPTER 4 A Transformational Basis for Form and Prolongation in Debussy's "Feux d'artifice"......Page 114
References......Page 178
C......Page 180
F......Page 181
K......Page 182
P......Page 183
T......Page 184
Z......Page 185
