Formal Analysis Basics Tutorial - (Second Edition) - (Includes Teaching CD-ROM) - (Second Edition)

Author: Gao Weijie
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Publish Date: 2006-05-01
Features: This book provides learners with basic knowledge and methods for analyzing musical forms, including one-part, two-part, three-part, ternary, variation, rondo, sonata, and sonata-rondo forms. Each analysis is accompanied by musical examples. The book is rich in content, easy to understand, and highly readable. It primarily introduces the basic knowledge and methods for analyzing musical forms, covering one-part, two-part, three-part, ternary, variation, rondo, sonata, and sonata-rondo forms, with musical examples for each. Compared to similar books, this one offers stronger comprehensiveness by introducing structural principles that reflect common patterns and the most fundamental and common forms, guiding readers to practice analysis through analogy. This enables readers to grasp the theory and methods of form analysis in a relatively short time. The second edition, based on the first, focuses on adding a significant number of 20th-century musical examples for analysis to broaden learners' horizons. It also includes musical examples with audio, making it more convenient for teaching use. This book is suitable for undergraduate and graduate students in music majors at universities, as well as those with equivalent academic backgrounds and music enthusiasts.