Studies in Music with TextThroughout his career, David Lewin labored to make even the most abstract theory speak to the experience of the ordinary listener. This book combines many of Lewin's classic articles on song and opera with newly drafted chapters on songs of Brahms, Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann, and Milton Babbitt. Bound together by Lewin's cogent insight, the resulting collection constitutes a major statement concerning the methodological problems associated with interpretation of texted music. |
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a-minor acoustic analysis analyzed appears arpeggiation aspects assert atonal bar line Basilio bass line beat beginning Brahms's cadence cadential chromatic composer connection context Count D major d minor David Lewin discussed downbeat dramatic dyad earlier enharmonic event Example Figaro final function functional tonality G major g minor gesture hear heard hexachords idea involved line of measure magic chord measure 12 melodic metric minor third mode motive Music Theory octave opening P-R-LIST Parsifal passage perceive perception pertinent Phrygian piano piece pitch pitch-class plagal play poem present question raisonneur reading relation rhythm rhythmic scene Schenker's Schenkerian Schoenberg Schubert semitone sense singer singing sisters sketch song specifically stanza strophe structure subdominant Susanna texture theme third tion tonal tone tonic transformation triad Tristan Chord Urlinie Ursatz vocal bar line vocal line vocal measure vocal meter vocal phrase voice written meter