Autho: Allen Forte, Steven E. Gilbert
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Item code: D3055+
ISBN: 0393951928
EAN: 9780393951929
pages: 416
Contents
part. 1. Survey of basic concepts
Melodic diminutions
Voice leading: counterpoint and figured bass
Compound melody
Linear intervallic patterns
Harmonic relations
Some common secondary structural features
part. 2. Reductions of small to moderate dimension
Basic axioms
The concept of prolongation
Prolongation of the primary tone: initial ascent
Prolongation of the primary tone: arpeggiation
Introduction to musical form
Fundamental structure in complete units
The harmonized chorale
Elaborated chorales: instrumental preludes and studies
Musical form and fundamental structure: "one-part" forms
Musical form and fundamental structure: two-part forms
Musical form and fundamental structure: three-part forms
Register transfer and displacement
part. 3. Reductions of larger dimension
Review and refinement: structural levels and linear progressions
Review and refinement: unfolding, register, transfer, overlapping, motivic structures
Sonata form and structural levels
Variation form and structural levels
Structural levels in compound and rondo forms