Materials and Techniques of Post-Tonal Music

Bys: Kostka, Stefan and Santa, Matthew

Materials and Techniques of Post-Tonal Music provides the most comprehensive introduction to post-tonal music and its analysis available. Covering music from the end of the 19th century through the beginning of the 21st, it offers students a clear guide to understanding the diverse and innovative compositional strategies that emerged in the post-tonal era, from Impressionism to computer music.

This sixth edition has been updated throughout with new musical examples, insights from the latest scholarship, and improvements to pedagogy, featuring:

An array of new examples and references to music by underrepresented composers, and examples from contemporary music A reordering of chapters, so that concepts related to pitch-class set theory are now introduced earlier and reinforced systematically in later chapters A revision of exercises to ensure accessibility and aid in student understanding

The accompanying online resources provide links to recordings of musical examples discussed in the text, and a manual for instructors covering all of the exercises in each chapter. This edition now includes additional workbook pages as an online resource.

Offering accessible explanations of complex concepts, Materials and Techniques of Post-Tonal Music, Sixth Edition is an essential text for all students of post-tonal music theory.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1041019564
• ISBN13: 9781041019565
• Release Date: November 2026
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 376 Pages