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  The Art of Post-Tonal Analysis (eBook, ePUB)

  The Art of Post-Tonal Analysis consists of analyses of thirty-three musical passages or entire short works in a variety of post-tonal styles. For each piece author Joseph N. Straus shows how it is put together and what sense might be made of it: how the music goes. Along the way, he shows the value of post-tonal theory in addressing these questions, and in revealing something of the fascination and beauty of this music. The works under study are taken from throughout the long twentieth century, from 1909 to the present. Within the atonal wing of modern classical music, the composers discussed here, some canonical and some not, represent a diversity of musical style, chronology, geography, gender, and race/ethnicity. Musical examples, plus a companion website full of analytical videos, carry the burden of the analytical argument, with rarely more than a few sentences of prose at a time. In writing these analyses, Straus imagined teaching these pieces to a class of undergraduate or graduate students, seated at the piano, pointing at score, listening as they go--the book is intended as a record of these (hypothetical) classes. His approach could be loosely described as transformational, rooted in an interest in seeing how musical ideas (shapes, intervals, motives) grow, change, and effloresce. When musical ideas are obviously dissimilar and possibly in conflict, the book teases out subtle points of connection between them. Above all, the book aims to create rich networks of relatedness, allowing our musical minds and musical ears to lead each other along some of the many enjoyable pathways through this challenging and beautiful music.

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  Everyone Into Position

  Würdiges Zweitwerk - auf den Spuren von Pink Floyd und Tool. Das erste Album der Band aus Manchester "Effloresce" war ein kleines Meisterwerk, das vor purer Energie zu bersten drohte, dem Begriff Gitarrengewitter eine völlig neue Bedeutung gab und sich über Monate hinweg zu einem kleinen, aber feinen Dauerseller entwickelte. Jetzt legen die Fünf nicht minder wuchtig nach. Ihr zweites Album "Everyone Into Position" wurde zwar vom Coldplay Produzenten Danton Supple abgemischt, ist aber erneut eine echte Herausforderung für den Hörer. Die Gitarrenwand muss stehen. Zuerst erscheint sie schier undurchdringlich, doch nach mehrmaligem Hören gehen einem die Melodien nicht mehr aus dem Kopf. Songwriter Mike Vennart verbrachte Monate damit, die Texte und Songs zu schleifen, bis er vollkommen zufrieden war. "Everyone Into Position" klingt besonders über Kopfhörer noch eine ganze Ecke dynamischer als "Effloresce". Das ambitionierte Songwriting rückt Oceansize in die Nähe des Idols Pink Floyd und begründet zugleich eine Generation neuer Prog-Rock-Bands.

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