Auerbach, Brent - Musical Motives

In Musical Motives, author Brent Auerbach look at the ways that motives--or the small-scale pitch and rhythm shapes ever-present in music--tie musical compositions together, and why we remember some more than others.

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CONTENTS

PART I: Establishing Grounds for a Discipline of Motivic Analysis
Chapter 1: Introduction to Motives
Chapter 2: A Brief History of Motives, Composition
Chapter 3: A History of Motives, Theory and Analysis
PART II: Methodology
Chapter 4: A Universal Nomenclature for Pitch and Rhythm Motives
Chapter 5: Basic Motivic Analysis (BMA)
Interlude 1 - On the Role of Narrative in Motivic Analysis in General and Its Role in BMA in Particular
Chapter 6: Exemplars of Basic Motivic Analysis
Interlude 2 - Narrative Archetypes of Complex Motivic Analysis (CMA)
Chapter 7: Complex Motivic Analysis 278
PART III: Analysis and Conclusion
Chapter 8 - Analysis of Three Works in Contrasting Styles
Chapter 9: Conclusion - The Future Promise and Persistent Limitations of Motivic Analysis
Selected Bibliography
Index