Musical Form and Analysis: Time, Pattern, Proportion

by Glenn Spring, Jere Hutcheson

Understanding the way music unfolds to the listener is a major key for unlocking the secrets of the composer's art. Musical Form and Analysis, highly regarded and widely used for two decades, provides a balanced theoretical and philosophical approach that helps upper-level undergraduate music majors understand the structures and constructions of major musical forms. Spring and Hutcheson present all of the standard topics expected in such a text, but their approach offers a unique conceptual thrust that takes readers beyond mere analytical terminology and facts. Evocative rather than encyclopedic, the text is organized around three elements at work at all levels of time, pattern, and proportion. Well-chosen examples and direct, well-crafted assignments reinforce techniques. A 140-page anthology of music for in-depth analysis provides a wide range of carefully selected works. Title of related interest also from Waveland Spencer-Temko, A Practical Approach to the Study of Form in Music (ISBN 9780881338065).

Genres: Music

410 pages, Spiral-bound

First published August 9, 2013