Musical currents from the left coast
By: edited by Jack Boss and Bruce Quaglia.
Contributors: Boss, Jack Forrest.; Quaglia, Bruce W.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Middlesex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781847186423
Subjects: Musical analysis
Notes: "The chapters presented here began as research papers presented at the sixteenth annual meeting of the West Coast Conference of Music Theory and Analysis, held at Salt Lake City in April, 2007"--introduction.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Current trends in the theories of rhythm and meter. Tracing the path of metric focus in four Chopin etudes / Brent Yorgason ; Hypermeter and performers' choices in recordings of J.S. Bach's Toccata in F, BWV 540/1 / Leon W. Couch III ; Revolving variations via rhythm / Susan de Ghizé ; Construing rhythmic spaces in diasporic African music / Christopher Stover; title: The analysis of music of the 20th and 21st centuries. En'light'ening the musical idea: text and musical structure in Webern's Das Augenlicht / Darin Hoskisson ; Pitch and duration contours in Karlheinz Stockhausen's Super-formula for Licht / Mustafa Bor ; Analyzing tonal embellishment in post-tonal music / Peter Silberman ; Transpositional combination and the analysis of form in George Crumb's Lux aeterna / Brian Moseley; title: Analysis of late 19th and early 20th century tonal music. Rhythmic Conflict in Janáček / Zdenek Skoumal ; Flat primary triads, harmonic refraction, and the harmonic idiom of Shostakovich and Prokofiev / Gabe Fankhauser ; Transformational-sixth chords in the early music of Richard Strauss / Stuart A. Woronecki; title: Colloquy: Schoenberg's Three piano pieces, op. 11. Tonal space and the "tonal problem" in Schoenberg's op. 11, no. 1 / Bruce Quaglia ; "Musical idea" and motivic structure in Schoenberg's op. 11, no. 1 / Jack Boss ; Multiple modes of continuity and coherence in Schoenberg's Piano piece, op. 11, no.1 / Richard Kurth ; Schoenberg's compositional philosophy, the Three piano pieces, op. 11, and his subsequent Volte-face / Áine Heneghan.