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	Musical analysis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Analysis is an activity most often engaged in by musicologists and most often applied to western classical music, although music of non-western cultures and that of an oral tradition, rather than written, is also often analysed.
		Jean Molino (1975a: 50-51) shows that musical analysis shifted from an emphasis upon the poietic vantage point to an esthesic one at the beginning of the eighteenth century (Nattiez 1990: 137).
		Musicologists associated with the new musicology often use musical analysis (traditional or not) along with or to support their examinations of the performance practice and social situations in which music is produced and which produce music, and vice versus.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Musical_analysis (1838 words)

	Essays in Musical Analysis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		These 'essays' actually came into existence as programme notes written by Tovey to accompany concerts given (mostly under his own baton) by the Reid Orchestra in Edinburgh.
		Each volume focused on a certain genre of orchestral or choral music (for example, Volumes I and II were devoted to 'Symphonies'; Volume III to 'Concertos'), with perhaps two or three dozen works discussed with the help of plentiful music examples.
		In the Essays Tovey saw his role as being "counsel for the defence" (Introduction to Volume I): in speaking up on behalf of the work about to be performed, he was seeking to facilitate the listener's appreciation of its artistic content and technical merits.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Essays_in_Musical_Analysis (309 words)

	Analysis
		Analysis An analysis is a critical evaluation, usually made by breaking a subject (either material or intellectual) down...
		Critical discourse analysis Critical Discourse Analysis, or CDA is an interdisciplinary approach to the study of text a...
		Thermal analysis Thermal analysis is a branch of temperature.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/analysis.html (2148 words)

	Essays in Musical Analysis: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Essays in Musical Analysis
		The essays have their roots in programme notes Tovey wrote to accompany concerts given by the Reid Orchestra in Edinburgh.
		Between 1935 and 1939 versions of these essays were published in six volumes as Essays in Musical Analysis.
		Each volume took a certain genre of orchestral or choral music[?] and is internal arranged by chronological order of composition.
	www.encyclopedian.com /es/Essays-in-Musical-Analysis.html (211 words)

	Encyclopedia: Essays in Musical Analysis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Classical music is music considered classical, as sophisticated and refined, in a regional tradition.
		These 'essays' came into existence as programme notes written by Tovey to accompany concerts given (mostly under his own baton) by the Reid Orchestra in Edinburgh.
		Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated in a palace chamber.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Essays-in-Musical-Analysis (469 words)

	Schenkerian Analysis and Popular Music
		We have seen how in its applications to popular music the principles of Schenkerian theory have been considered as axioms that may or may not be used, according to their fittting in the stylistic features of the music.
		In rock music, for example, the continuous repetition of a short musical structure;usually composed of versus and refrain; and the use of very short harmonic and melodic patterns, guarantees a strong, obvious unity that does not need to be emphasised by means of any hidden relationships.
		Therefore, the idea of analysis focusing almost exclusively on purely musical;audible; facts which lies at the core of Schenker´s theory, is strongly cultural-specific, and the translation of this idea to other musical cultures creates the risk of neglecting more important features of their music.
	www.sibetrans.com /trans/trans5/garcia.htm (3780 words)

	wikien.info: Main_Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The essay was a favourite form of the man of letters, allowing a display of understated reading and..
		Essay of Dramatick Poesie is a work of dramaturgy by John Dryden published in 1668.
		In complex analysis, an essential singularity of a function is a "severe" singularity near which the function exhibits extreme behavior.
	www.hostingciamca.com /browse.php?title=E/ES/ESS (3812 words)

	Guide to Program Notes and Analyses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Brief descriptions of the standard repertoire of music for piano solo, 4-hand piano music, and music for piano and orchestra.
		The works of an enormous number of composers from all periods of music are indexed, despite the implications of the title.
		An index to choral literature arranged by subject, including sections relating to the history and analysis of the music.
	www.lib.washington.edu /music/Programguide.html (903 words)

	Musical analysis : Musical analyst (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Analysis is an activity most often engaged in by musicologists and most often applied to western classical music, although music of non-western cultures and that of an oral, rather than written, tradition is also analysed.
		An analysis can be conducted on a single piece of music, on a part of a piece or on a collection of pieces.
		Rudolph Réti isn'table for tracing the development of small melodic motifs through a work, while Nicolas Ruwet's analysis amounts to a kind of musical semiology.
	www.explainthis.info /mu/musical-analyst.html (386 words)

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		Musical Analysis - selected bibliography Analytica: studies in the description and analysis of music.
		The structure of music: a listener's guide; a study of music in terms of melody and counterpoint.
		Layer analysis: a primer of elementary tonal structures.
	www.uncg.edu /mus/courses/msbrewst/amr/contents/anlbib.txt (443 words)

	Additional Reading (from chamber music) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		In its original sense chamber music referred to music composed for the home, as opposed to that written for the theatre or church.
		The phrase musica da camera, Italian for “music of the chamber,” originally referred to any music not intended for the church or for a dramatic or festive purpose.
		Today the term chamber music is applied to a type of classical music that is written for small groups of instruments.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-27474?tocId=27474 (895 words)

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		They weren't "musical analyses" as I understood the term -- first movement in the tonic, modulating to the dominant via enharmonic bridge, etc. They were, instead, program notes about specific pieces that Sir Donald would conduct with his Reid Orchestra in Edinburgh.
		What Tovey wrote about was not only the structure of a piece of music; his focus was on the aura that forms in and around a piece of music after it leaves the printed page and makes contact with the listener out front.
		His ideal listener, he proclaimed time and again, was the person not necessarily trained in music, but endowed with a willing ear to accept a musical experience and examine the results.
	www.laweekly.com /ink/printme.php?eid=36100 (666 words)

	MTO 5.1: New Books
		Edward A. Lippman's writings on musical aesthetics comprise a wide variety of areas and employ both systematic and historical approaches, reflecting throughout his unrivaled knowledge of the philosophical literature on music and his deep understanding of the musical repertory.
		Edward A. Lippman is a professor emeritus of music at Columbia University.
		David Schulenberg is an assistant professor of music at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
	www.societymusictheory.org /mto/issues/mto.99.5.1/bks.5.1.html (1211 words)

	Close to the Edge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Punk rock, in an effort perhaps to re-establish a directness of personal expression, tended to celebrate musical amateurism; and clearly such an aesthetic is antithetical to the drive to virtuosity and textural complexity found in the music of most progressive groups.
		Considering the challenge that the original progressive-rock musicians established for their music, one might well wonder how successful these groups really were at blending 1960s and 70s pop and rock with classical music--two general styles that were at the time considered to be very disparate.
		The preceding analysis suggests that there are a number of features in the structure of "Close to the Edge" that correspond to structural features in Western art music: the piece unfolds a large-scale formal design reinforced by tonal, thematic, and rhythmic return and development.
	yesworld.com /ctte_covach/Close_to_the_Edge.html (10453 words)

	Julius Herford Collection : About the Collection
		Julius Herford made arrangements with David Fenske, Head of the William and Gayle Cook Music Library, for his collection of scores, monographs, course materials, and papers to be given to the Music Library upon his death.
		For instance, Folder #1a is Donald Tovey's Essays in Musical Analysis, Volume 5.
		Herford discusses his process of analysis (Lecture from May 8, 1976, Folder #27), an essay on score study and the importance of musicological research for performance practice (Folder #68), and notes on analysis ("Analysis of Choral Masterpieces: Notes taken from a course given by Julius Herford (1958)", Folder #87).
	www.music.indiana.edu /collections/herford/collection.html (370 words)

	Requirements (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Essays in musical analysis or A discussion of Beethoven's music.~
		Utilizing techniques of Schenkerian analysis or set theory analysis as appropriate, prepare an in-depth analysis paper of an approved composition.
		This analysis paper is due no later than the Final Exam.
	www.towson.edu /~crawford/requirem.htm (224 words)

	Book details & reviews for 'Understanding Rock Music: Essays in Musical Analysis', ISBN: 0195100050 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In the last twenty years, scholars have become increasingly interested in rock music, and this is evinced by the ever burgeoning literature devoted to rock music, the musicians who make it, and the fans who enjoy it.
		Each essay is richly illustrated with musical examples, and in some cases, with extended transcriptions.
		These essays also suggest how the analysis of rock music prompts the consideration of new issues in music and musical analysis and scholarship.
	www.cheapassguys.com /bookdetails_isbn--0195100050.html (607 words)

	Musical Times: In safe hands
		Nowhere else has he concentrated so great a variety of music within so effective a scheme; and the slow finale, with its complete simplicity of despair is a stroke of genius which solves all the artistic problems that have proved most baffling to symphonic writers since Beethoven [...
		To assert that this four-- movement symphony partakes of the design of Liszt's B minor Sonata, and that the first subject group of the first movement ought therefore to be thought of as a 'missing' scherzo, seems bizarre to me. Indeed, Jackson contradicts Tchaikovsky's own sketchbook descriptions of the third movement as 'Scherzo/March'.
		He describes clearly and effectively the ways in which Dvorak's musical style changed while he was in the USA (notably towards a greater directness and simplicity than are found in his earlier, more Brahmsian works like the Seventh Symphony).
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3870/is_199901/ai_n8830396 (1339 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Classics of Music: Talks, Essays, and Other Writings Previously Uncollected: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		These words were uttered by Hubert Foss, the editor of Essays and Lectures on Music (1949), the last of the posthumous volumes of Tovey's writings prepared for the press.
		Sir Donald Francis Tovey (1875-1940), the Reid Professor of Music at Edinburgh University from 1914 until his death is best remembered by musicians and musicologists the world over as the author of Essays in Musical Analysis.
		It occurred to Michael Tilmouth, Tovey Professor of Music in the University of Edinburgh that collecting some of these unpublished items into what he called a Tovey Miscellany might be appropriate.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0198162146 (1291 words)

	National Review: Essays in musical analysis. (book reviews) @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		New Oxford University Press has finally issued its two-volume edition of Tovey's Essays in Musical Analysis in the United States.
		are the most famous works of musical criticism in the English language.
		For acuteness, common sense, clarity, and wit they are probably unequaled, and they make ideal reading for anyone interested in the classical music repertory." Very highly recommended to anyone who does not already own the six original volumes.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:3216050&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (230 words)

	Untitled Document
		A detailed analysis of all his works grouped by his early music, the second period, the third period, and the final period.
		A history, a description with musical notation examples as it relates to the text, and Robertson's critical commentary are included in these pages.
		A historical and analytical survey of choral music from the sixteenth century to the twentieth century, Brahms's, "Requiem" is briefly discussed.
	home.att.net /~eveline.eng/hc.html (816 words)

	91903 STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS IN MUSIC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The understanding of theoretical and structural aspects of music is fundamental to performing and teaching at an advanced level.
		The application of this knowledge to the performance of music is a critical factor in the intelligent interpretation of music from all periods in the history of Western music.
		This unit analyses the structures of important Western musical forms in the Baroque, Classical and Romantic periods, and in the 20th century.
	www.usq.edu.au /unit-1998/fullspec/91903s2d.htm (344 words)

	Music 242
		REF ML 100.N48 2001 The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.
		A superb annotated bibliography of music criticism appropriate to the music generalist and undergraduate student.
		Music Library reference office hours are posted on the librarians’ door.
	www.stolaf.edu /library/instruction/biguides/spring2004/MUSIC242.htm (871 words)

	Mus 580 Analytical Techniques Spring '97
		Analytical Techniques presents approaches to analyzing form, structure, and style in music from the 18th and 19th centuries.
		Issues of analysis that will be covered include description and labeling; parametric analysis, expecially texture and rhythm; tonality; form as integral structure and as normative pattern; hierarchy; unity/contrast; expectation; aesthetic response.
		Several approaches to analysis will be studied and practiced, drawing on Spencer and Temko, Rosen, Lester, Rothstein, and Caldwell.
	www.wiu.edu /users/mfjc2/m580syl97.html (483 words)

	Researching a Musical Work
		Depending on the popularity of the work, it can be challenging to research a particular musical composition.
		Use the subject term musical analysis or music -- history and criticism
		Additional databases may be found on the music gateway page.
	library.ups.edu /instruct/ricig/musicanalysis (283 words)

	The Poetics of Rock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In it, Albin Zak examines the crucial roles played by recording technologies in the construction of rock music and shows how songwriters, musicians, engineers, and producers contribute to the creative project, and how they all leave their mark on the finished work.
		Using their testimony to illuminate the nature of record making and of records themselves, he shows that the art of making rock records is a collaborative compositional process that includes many skills and sensibilities not traditionally associated with musical composition.
		Albin J. Zak, III is Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of Michigan School of Music.
	www.ucpress.edu /books/pages/9378.html (424 words)

	Donald Francis Tovey - Classical Composers Database
		As befitted a renowned scholar and educationist, Tovey's own music was much influenced by the classics, especially Brahms, and was considered extremely 'old-fashioned' within his lifetime.
		In 1914 became Professor of Music at the Reid School of Music, Edinburgh University.
		The IMC UNESCO International Music Prize for 2005 was awarded to Mikis Theodorakis in Aachen, Germany.
	www.classical-composers.org /cgi-bin/ccd.cgi?comp=tovey (765 words)

	Understanding Rock Music: Essays in Musical Analysis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Understanding Rock Music: Essays in Musical Analysis Review: The previous reviewer was clearly expecting something that would be a bit more like music journalism.
		Understanding Rock Music: Essays in Musical Analysis Review: This is a great book for anyone who has always suspected that there is more to rock music than just 3 chords, tough-guy posturing, and stories of wild lifestyles.
		Understanding Rock Music: Essays in Musical Analysis Review: Unfortunately, many so-called "rock journalists" are nothing more than sociology majors who let their devotion to an artists or group cloud their vision of unbiased criticism.
	www.textkit.com /0_0195100050.html (420 words)

	Finding Musical Analyses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		One way of finding analyses of musical compositions is by doing a subject search in COAST, the library�s online catalog.
		Program notes that accompany recordings can be a good source of information about musical works.
		Diamond, Harold J. Music analyses: an annotated guide to the literature.
	www.csulb.edu /library/instruction/handouts/analyses.html (267 words)

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