Guidelines For Style Analysis
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Guidelines for Style Analysis
Guidelines for Style Analysis, now in its expanded second edition, sets forth Jan LaRue's original, penetrating, and adaptable approach to the understanding of musical works. LaRue provides a consistent point of view from which music of any historical period can be examined. His style-analytic method insures the close examination of all musical dimensions and elements, an understanding of their functions and interrelations, and a firm basis for evaluation and comparison. Guidelines presents a codification of various ways of looking at music, within a comprehensive framework. LaRue discusses in detail each aspect of the style-analytic routine, illustrating points with illuminating examples and diagrams. Guidelines and Models, taken together, give the teacher and student, the listener and performer, new insight into the nature of musical shape and movement, thereby creating heightened awareness of the many facets of the musical experience.
Style and Music
Author: Leonard B. Meyer
language: en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date: 1996
Leonard Meyer proposes a theory of style and style change that relates the choices made by composers to the constraints of psychology, cultural context, and musical traditions. He explores why, out of the abundance of compositional possibilities, composers choose to replicate some patterns and neglect others. Meyer devotes the latter part of his book to a sketch-history of nineteenth-century music. He shows explicitly how the beliefs and attitudes of Romanticism influenced the choices of composers from Beethoven to Mahler and into our own time. "A monumental work. . . . Most authors concede the relation of music to its cultural milieu, but few have probed so deeply in demonstrating this interaction."—Choice "Probes the foundations of musical research precisely at the joints where theory and history fold into one another."—Kevin Korsyn, Journal of American Musicological Society "A remarkably rich and multifaceted, yet unified argument. . . . No one else could have brought off this immense project with anything like Meyer's command."—Robert P. Morgan, Music Perception "Anyone who attempts to deal with Romanticism in scholarly depth must bring to the task not only musical and historical expertise but unquenchable optimism. Because Leonard B. Meyer has those qualities in abundance, he has been able to offer fresh insight into the Romantic concept."—Donal Henahan, New York Times
Guidelines for Style Analysis
"By providing a consistent point of view from which music of any style or period can be examined, the style-analytical approach insures the close examination of all dimensions and elements, an understanding of their functions and interrelations, and a firm basis for evaluation and comparison. Not a system of musical theory, Guidelines for Style Analysis is rather an extension and codification of various partial ways of looking at music into a comprehensive framework."--Publisher.