Music for Analysis: Examples from the Common Practice Period and the Twentieth Century

ISBN-10
0534134289
ISBN-13
9780534134280
Category
Musical analysis
Pages
418
Language
English
Published
1989-10
Authors
Robert Nelson, Thomas Benjamin, Michael Horvit

Description

In this comprehensive music anthology, readers will find more than 400 musical examples. Designed as a perfect companion for theory text, Music For Analysis is an outstanding resource for supporting independent musical analysis. Presenting music in a great variety of forms, styles, and genres, this book provides a wonderfully broad repertory of music and its composers form the Baroque period to the present.

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