Practical Approach to the Study of Form in Music

by Peter Spencer, Peter M. Temko

Learning music's organizing principles . . . Approaching the study of form as an exercise in perceiving the interaction of a number of discrete musical events, Spencer and Temko's book embodies much more than a search for visual clues. Students of form develop perceptual tools that allow them to proceed from the aural experience to an understanding of the arch-principles upon which music is organized. The authors hold that the organizing principles of a given piece of music may be gleaned from the internal attributes that give a section its specific identity; the functional relations between sections; the ordering of those sections. Title of related interest from Waveland Spring-Hutcheson, Musical Form and Time, Pattern, Proportion (ISBN 9781478607229).

Genres: Music

215 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1988

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