Customer Review: While I applaud the analysis method, based on Jan la Rue's "Five Parameters of Music" (here expanded to nine phenomena), this text poses several problems for the standard college classroom. An anthology is mandatory, though no one anthology seems to work with it. The analysis method itself yields a... more info
Customer Review: This is not a book on form in the old sense of the term. That is, it is not a collection of terms for students to use as decals to stick on pieces as they learn them. Green aims to provide the student with skills that aid him or her to understand what the piece is about. What is that the piece says... more info
Customer Review: This paperback text is aimed at the student or amateur looking for a solid grounding in the history and evolution of choral genres and forms from the Renaissance to 1973 (date of publication). Buyers should note that this book does not necessarily include the spiral bound, very useful-sounding... more info
Customer Review: One of the things this offers is real insight into the creative process. If you're having writer's block, I recommend these lectures for you. Igor's ideas may well help in clearing up some of the problems we create for ourselves.