Musical Motives
A Theory and Method for Analyzing Shape in Music
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 17 September 2021
- ISBN 9780197526026
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages400 pages
- Size 157x239x30 mm
- Weight 748 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 192 musical examples 121
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Short description:
In Musical Motives, author Brent Auerbach look at the ways that motives--or the small-scale pitch and rhythm shapes ever-present in music--tie musical compositions together, and why we remember some more than others.
MoreLong description:
All music fans harbor in their memories vivid fragments of their favorite works. The starting guitar solo of "Satisfaction" by the Rolling Stones, the da-da-da-DUM gesture that opens Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, the lush swelling chords of a beloved movie soundtrack: hearing the briefest snippet of any of these is enough to transport listeners into the piece's sonic and emotional world. But what makes musical motives so powerful? In Musical Motives, author Brent Auerbach looks at the ways that motives — the small-scale pitch and rhythm shapes that are ever-present in music — unify musical compositions and shape our experiences of them.
Motives serve both to communicate basic musical meaning and to tie together sound space like the motifs in visual art. They present in all genres from classical and popular to jazz and world music, making them ideally suited for analysis. Musical Motives opens with a general introduction to these fundamental building blocks, then lays out a comprehensive theory and method to account for music's structure and drama in motivic terms. Aimed at both amateur and expert audiences, the book offers a tiered approach that progresses from Basic to Complex Motivic Analysis. The methods are illustrated by small- and large-scale analyses of pieces by Mozart, Beethoven, Handel, Chaminade, Verdi, Radiohead, and many more.
This is a specialized, albeit excellent, treatment of musical motive and it requires that readers have the ability to read music and are familiar with the discourse style of music theory and with theory's recent history.
Table of Contents:
PART I: Establishing Grounds for a Discipline of Motivic Analysis
Chapter 1: Introduction to Motives
Chapter 2: A Brief History of Motives, Composition
Chapter 3: A History of Motives, Theory and Analysis
PART II: Methodology
Chapter 4: A Universal Nomenclature for Pitch and Rhythm Motives
Chapter 5: Basic Motivic Analysis (BMA)
Interlude 1 - On the Role of Narrative in Motivic Analysis in General and Its Role in BMA in Particular
Chapter 6: Exemplars of Basic Motivic Analysis
Interlude 2 - Narrative Archetypes of Complex Motivic Analysis (CMA)
Chapter 7: Complex Motivic Analysis 278
PART III: Analysis and Conclusion
Chapter 8 - Analysis of Three Works in Contrasting Styles
Chapter 9: Conclusion - The Future Promise and Persistent Limitations of Motivic Analysis
Selected Bibliography
Index
