Generalized Musical Intervals and Transformations by Lewin, David

Generalized Musical Intervals and Transformations (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780195317138)

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Format: Hardcover
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Generalized Musical Intervals and Transformations by Lewin, David

Generalized Musical Intervals and Transformations

$84.00
Generalized Musical Intervals and Transformations by Lewin, David

Generalized Musical Intervals and Transformations

$84.00
Format: Hardcover
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David Lewin's Generalized Musical Intervals and Transformations is recognized as the seminal work paving the way for current studies in mathematical and systematic approaches to music analysis. Lewin, one of the 20th century's most prominent figures in music theory, pushes the boundaries of the study of pitch-structure beyond its conception as a static system for classifying and inter-relating chords and sets. Known by most music theorists as "GMIT", the book is by far the most significant contribution to the field of systematic music theory in the last half-century, generating the framework for the "transformational theory" movement. Appearing almost twenty years after GMIT's initial publication, this Oxford University Press edition features a previously unpublished preface by David Lewin, as well as a foreword by Edward Gollin contextualizing the work's significance for the current field of music theory.

Author: David Lewin
ISBN-10: 0195317130
ISBN-13: 9780195317138
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 04/19/2007
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.32lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d
By David Lewin
By David Lewin
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Over his 42-year teaching career, David Lewin (1933-2003) taught composition, with an increasing focus on music theory, at the University of California at Berkeley, the State University of New York at Stony Brook, Yale University, and finally at Harvard University. Among his music-theoretic writings are many articles and books, including Musical Form and Transformation (Yale, 1993), which received an ASCAP Deems Taylor Award, and Studies in Music with Text (posthumous, Oxford 2006). He was the recipient of honorary doctoral degrees from the University of Chicago, the New England Conservatory of Music, and the Marc Bloch University, Strasbourg, France, for his work in music theory.

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