This thoroughly revised third edition of Allan F. Moore's ground-breaking book, now co-
authored with Remy Martin, incorporates new material on rock music theory, style change …

In this study, we report a corpus analysis of rock harmony. As a corpus, we used Rolling
Stone magazine's list of the '500 Greatest Songs of All Time'; we took the 20 top-ranked …

The analysis of popular music forces us to rethink the assumptions that underpin our
approaches to the study of Western music. Not least, it brings to the fore an idea that many …

The pitch syntax of mainstream rock music comprises a variety of tonal, modal, blues-based
and chromatic elements. Traditional constructs of scale-degree theory and harmonic …

In all of the books about rock music, relatively few focus on the purely musical dimensions of
the style: dimensions of harmony and melody, tonality and scale, rhythm and meter, phrase …

Recording Analysis: How the Record Shapes the Song identifies and explains how the
sounds imparted by recording processes enhance the artistry and expression of recorded …

" There's a moment in Janis Joplin's rendition of" Piece of My Heart" that anyone who has
heard the song even once will recall vividly. I'm referring of course to Joplin's explosive cry …

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STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY MUSIC AND CULTURE JOSEPH AUNER, Series Editor …

This article outlines the use of neo-Riemannian operations (NROs) for the analysis of certain
pop-rock chord progressions whose features invite a transformational approach. After …

This article defines and demonstrates a formal type I call “terminally climactic forms.” These
forms, which appear frequently in rock songs after 1990, are characterized by their balance …