Musical Form and Transformation: Four Analytic Essays

Distinguished Music Theorist And Composer David Lewin (1933-2003) Applies The Conceptual Framework He Developed In His Earlier, Innovative 'generalized Musical Intervals And Transformations' To The Varied Repertoire Of The 20th Century In This Stimulating And Illustrative Book. Foreword / By Edward Gollin. -- Serial Transformation Networks In Dallapiccola's Simbolo -- Making And Using A Pcset Network For Stockhausen's Klavierstück Iii -- Set Theory, Derivation, And Transformational Structures In Analyzing Webern's Opus 10, Number 4 -- A Transformational Basis For Form And Prolongation In Debussy's Feux D'artifice David Lewin. Originally Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, C1993. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 161-162) And Index.