MUSICAL FORM AND ANALYSIS

BIBLIOGRAPHY

A. GENERAL FORM AND ANALYSIS

Berry, Wallace. Form in Music, 2nd ed. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1986.

Berry, Wallace. Structural Functions in Music. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1976.

Cone, Edward T. Musical Form and Musical Performance. New York: W. W. Norton Co., 1968.

Cooper, Grosvenor W. and Meyer, Leonard B. The Rhythmic Structure of Music. Chicago:
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Davie, Cedric Thorpe. Musical Structure and Design. New York: Dover Reprint.

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De Lone, et al. Aspects of 20th Century Music. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1975.

Dickinson, George Sherman. A Handbook of Style in Music. New York: Da Capo Press, 1969.

Epstein, David. Beyond Orpheus, Studies in Musical Stucture. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1979.

Erickson, Robert. Sound Structure in Music. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975.

Erickson, Robert. The Structure of Music: A Listener’s Guide. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press,
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Fontaine, Paul. Basic Formal Structures in Music. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1967.

Green, Douglas M. Form in Tonal Music, 2nd ed. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979.

Hutcheson, Jere T. Musical Form and Analysis. Vol. I and II. New York: Taplinger Publishing Co.,
1979.

Kohs, Ellis. Musical Form, Studies in Analysis and Synthesis. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1976.

Kostelanetz, Richard and Darby, Joseph. Classic Essays on Twentieth Century Music. New York:
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La Rue, Jon. Guidelines for Style Analysis. New York: W. W. Norton Co., 1970.

MacPherson, Stewart. Form in Music. London: Joseph Williams, Ltd., C. 1930’s?

Mellers, Wilfred. The Sonata Principle. Fairlawn, N.J.: Essential Books, 1957.

Meyer, Leonard B. Emotion and Meaning in Music. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1961. (Phoenix
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Meyer, Leonard B. Explaining Music: Essays and Explorations. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago, 1978.
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Meyer, Leonard B. Music, The Arts, and Ideas. Univerisity of Chicago, 1967. (Phoenix Paperback)

Newman, William S. The Sonata in the Baroque Era. Chapel Hill: University of N. C. Press, 1959.

Newman, William S. The Sonata in the Classic Era. New York: W. W. Norton, 1972.

Newman, William S. The Sonata Since Beethoven. New York: W. W. Norton, 1972.

Reti, Rudolph. The Thematic Process in Music. New York: Macmillan, 1951.

Reti, Rudolph. Tonality, Atonality, Pontonality. London: Rockliff, 1958. (Available through Collier
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Rosen, Charles. The Classical Style. New York: Viking Press, Inc., 1971.

Rosen, Charles. Sonata Forms. New York: W. W. Norton, 1980.

Sochs, Curt. Rhythm and Tempo. New York: W. W. Norton, 1953.

Salzer, Felix. Structural Hearing: Tonal Coherence in Music, Vol. I, II. New York: Dover Reprint.

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Tovey, Donald F. The Forms of Music. New York: Merdian, 1956.

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 White, John D. The Analysis of Music, 2nd ed. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1984.

Xenakis, Iannis. Formalized Music. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1971.

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Zuckerkandl, Victor. Sound and Symbol: Music and the External World. Princeton: Battinger
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Zuckerkandl, Victor. The Sense of Music. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1959.

B. FORM AND ANALYSIS RELATED TO A SPECIFIC COMPOSER OR MUSICAL STYLE

Bernard, Jonathan W., ed: Elliot Carter, Collected Essays and Lectures, 1937-1995. Eastman
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MacDowell, Edward. Critical and Historical Essays. New York: Da Capo Press, 1969.

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Vaughan Williams, Ralph. The Making of Music. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1955.

prepared by:
Greg Steinke