What to Listen for in Rock: A Stylistic Analysis - Hardcover

Stephenson, Ken

 
9780300092394: What to Listen for in Rock: A Stylistic Analysis
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0300092393 ISBN 13: 9780300092394
Verlag: Yale University Press, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

In this concise and engaging analysis of rock music, music theorist Ken Stephenson explores the features that make this internationally popular music distinct from earlier music styles. The author offers a guided tour of rock music from the 1950s to the present, emphasizing the theoretical underpinnings of the style and, for the first time, systematically focusing not on rock music's history or sociology, but on the structural aspects of the music itself. What structures normally happen in rock music? What theoretical systems or models might best explain them? The book addresses these questions and more in chapters devoted to phrase rhythm, scales, key determination, cadences, harmonic palette and succession, and form. Each chapter provides richly detailed analyses of individual rock pieces from groups including Chicago; the Beatles; Emerson, Lake, and Palmer; Kansas; and others. Stephenson shows how rock music is stylistically unique, and he demonstrates how the features that make it distinct have tended to remain constant throughout the past half-century and within most substyles. For music students at the college level and for practicing rock musicians who desire a deeper understanding of their music, this book is an essential resource.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Ken Stephenson, associate professor of music theory at the University of Oklahoma, has been a professional rock musician for more than twenty-five years.

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Verlag
Yale University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2002
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0300092393
ISBN 13 
9780300092394
Einband
Tapa dura
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
272
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