Analyzing the Music of Living Composers (and Others)

SUMARIO. Preface ; Jack Boss // Part I. Process in the music of living composers / Introduction to Part I ; Tim S. Pack / ch. 1. Making the most out of minimalism : multiple simultaneous processes in Torke's Telephone Book ; Brent Yorgason / ch. 2. Coherence and comprehensibility in Joan Tower's Purple Rhapsody ; Andrew Gades / ch. 3. Games, simplicity, and trees : an analysis of Arvo Part's Arbos ; Erik Heine / ch. 4. An introduction to the music of Willem Ceuleers ; Tim S. Pack // Part II. The tonal tradition / Introduction to Part II ; Stephen Rodgers / ch. 5. Harmony and the myth of Narcissus in 'Du libst mich nicht' ; Jessie Layne Thornton / ch. 6. Mahler's musical idea : a Schenkerian-Schoenbergian analysis of the adagio from Symphony no. 10 ; Jack Boss / ch. 7. Debussy's Unterbrechung ; Gary Don // Part III. Pop music and beyond / Introduction to Part III ; Brad Osborn / ch. 8. When pop stars collide : mashups as musical destiny ; Christine Boone / ch. 9. Groove topics in improvised jazz ; Garrett Michaelsen / ch. 10. The music of Mario, Link, and Samus : harmony, form, and meaning in early compositions by Koji Kondo and Hirokazu Tanaka ; Nathan Baker / ch. 11. Hearing Heima : ecological and ecocritical approaches to meaning in three Icelandic music videos ; Brad Osborn // Part IV. Musical geometry and temporal structuring / Introduction to Part IV ; Jack Boss / ch. 12. Serial n-cubes ; Paul Lombardi / ch. 13. Temporal structuring in Colin Matthews' Eleven Studies in Velocity ; Aleksandra Vojcic