Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 210
Trim: 6 x 9
978-1-4422-3528-1 • Paperback • March 2014 • $56.00 • (£43.00)
E. Eugene Helm is professor emeritus in the school of music, University of Maryland, College Park. He is founder of its ethnomusicology program and co-founder and coordinating editor of The Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Edition. He is author of various other works on C.P.E. Bach.
Preface
Chapter 1: Melody is Pure but Not So Simple
Chapter 2: Harmony, Unlike Melody, is Pure Only in Theory
Chapter 3: Our Usual Musical Menu is Melody with Subsidiary Accompaniment
Chapter 4: Counterpoint is a Harmonious Marriage of Independent Melodies
Chapter 5: Texture
Chapter 6: Special Mixtures of Texture
Chapter 7: East is East is Melody; West is West is Harmony
Chapter 8: The Universal Patterns of Melody: Melody Types
Chapter 9: Of the Earth, Earthy: Folk Music and its Role in Composition
Chapter 10: Improvisation Forever
Chapter 11: The Big Difference: Music Notation
Chapter 12: Canon, Free Imitation, Fugue: A Path to Musical Meaning
Chapter 13: Free Imitation: Canon with a Grain of Salt
Chapter 14: Fugue: The Whole Contrapuntal Bag of Tricks
Chapter 15: Harmony, the Governing Principle
Chapter 16: Music in Architecture
Chapter 17: Music in Astronomy
Chapter 18: Vibration, the New Paradigm
Chapter 19: The Harmonic Series
Chapter 20: Mapping the New Tonal Territory
Chapter 21: Tonality is Still Here
Notes
Suggest Further Reading
About the Author