Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Skoumal, Zdenek, author.

Title The music of Leos Janáček : motive, rhythm, structure / Zdeněk Skoumal
Published Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2020

Copies

Description 1 online resource (xiv, 288 pages) : music
Series Eastman studies in music, 1071-9989
Eastman studies in music.
Contents Janáček's motives -- Musical elements -- Nineteenth-century foundation -- Folk studies -- Jenůfa -- Middle-period works -- The cunning little vixen -- The wandering madman -- First string quartet : first movement -- Three rhythmic studies
Summary "The first thorough theoretical study of Janáček's compositions, focusing on motivic and rhythmic structure and identifying elements that give the music coherence, character, and interest"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-279) and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (JSTOR, viewed June 3, 2022)
Subject Janáček, Leoš, 1854-1928 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Janáček, Leoš, 1854-1928 -- Criticism and interpretation
Janáček, Leoš, 1854-1928 fast
Subject Music -- 20th century -- Analysis, appreciation
Music -- 19th century -- Analysis, appreciation
Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups.
MUSIC -- History & Criticism.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781787449176
1787449173
9781800100152
1800100159