John (Hrsg.) Covach

Understanding Rock

Essays in Musical Analysis

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Amid the recent increase in scholarly attention to rock music, Understanding Rock stands out as one of the first books that subjects diverse aspects of the music itself to close and sophisticated analytical scrutiny. Written by some of the best young scholars in musicology and music theory, the essays in this volume use harmonic, melodic, rhythmic, formal, and textual approaches in order to show how and why rock music works as music.Topics of discussion include the adaptation of blues and other styles to rock; the craft of songwriting; techniques and strategies of improvisation; the reinterpretation of older songs; and the use of the recordin… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Boone, Graeme M. (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-0-19-535662-5
EAN: 9780195356625
Produktnummer: 13925655
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 1997
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 13'215 KB
Abbildungen: 65 musical examples

Über den Autor

John Covach is Associate Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Graeme M. Boone is Assistant Professor of Music at the Ohio State University.