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Contemporary Harmony Romanticism through the 12-Tone Row
Ludmila Ulehla
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The understanding of the musical
techniques of composition can not be
reduced to a handbook of simplified rules.
Music is complex and ever changing. It is
the purpose of this book to trace the path
of musical growth from the late Romantic
period to the serial techniques of the
contemporary composer.
Through the detailed analysis of the
musical characteristics that dominate a
specific style of writing, a graduated plan
is organized and presented here in the
form of explanations and exercises. A new
analytical method substitutes for the
diatonic figured bass and makes exercises
and the analysis of non-diatonic literature
more manageable.
The explanations describing each
technique are thorough. They are designed
to help the teacher and the student see the
many extenuating circumstances that affect
a particular analytical decision. More
important than a dogmatic decision on a
particular key center or a root tone, for
example, is the understanding of why such
an underdeterminate condition may exist.
"I have used this book for analysis for teaching and as a
creative tool in my own compositions. It is enormously useful
and provocative."
Robert M. Abramson, The Juilliard School, New York
"Contemporary Harmony is the only book that adequately
treats contemporary compositional techniques as rhetorical
expansions upon the past. ....one of the great analytical essays
of our century."
Ron Thomas, pianist
"Contemporary Harmony is one of the finest, most
comprehensive texts ever written on the subject. A unique and
invaluable contribution to both the student and the
professional musician."
D. Anthony Ricigliano, Manhattan School of Music,
New York
"Contemporary Harmony is surely the best, most informative,
challenging, thorough and detailed explanation of the musical
techniques of composition from 1900 to the present. It fills the
hiatus left by Sch�nberg.s "Structural Functions". I can
honestly say, I would not be the musician I am without her
insights into the creative musical mind of the geniuses of our
century."
Jack Reilly, Composer/Pianist/Author