Understanding Post-Tonal Music

Miguel A. Roig-Francolí is Distinguished Teaching Professor of Music Theory and Composition at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.

 
About the Author


Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction: An Overview of Twentieth-Century Compositional Styles


1. Pitch Centricity and Composition with Motivic Cells


2. Pitch Centricity and Symmetry


3. Introduction to Pitch-Class Set Theory


4. Analyzing Atonal Music


5. Drawing on (and Reinterpreting) the Past …


6. … And Inventing the Future


7. Twelve-Tone Music I: An Introduction


8. Twelve-Tone Music II: Invariance, Symmetry, and Combinatoriality


9. Serialism: Developments after 1945


10. Expanding the Limits of Musical Temporality


11. Aleatory Music, Sound Mass, and Beyond


12. Where Past and Future Meet …


13. Simplifying Means


14. Into the Twenty-First Century


Epilogue


Appendix: The List of Set Classes


Bibliography


Acknowledgment of Sources


Musical Example Index


Subject index