Highpoints : : A Study of Melodic Peaks / / Zohar Eitan.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: Eitan, Zohar,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: Reprint 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (190 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Acknowledgments --; 1. Why Study Melodic Peaks --; 2. Method: Testing the Hypotheses --; 3. Peaks in Haydn: The Attenuation of Climax --; 4. Chopin: Melodic Peaks, Salience, and Intensity --; 5. Peaks in Berg: Romantic Gesture in a New Context --; 6. Conclusion: Style and Melodic Gesture --; Appendix 1. Peaks and Control Notes Examined --; Appendix 2. Random Numbers Used to Determine Controls --; Works Cited --; Name Index --; Subject Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781512801897; 9783110442526
• DOI: 10.9783/9781512801897
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Zohar Eitan.

In Highpoints Zoltan Eitan investigates a universal melodic phenomenon--the melodic peak--in Western repertories ranging from eighteenth-century Galant music to twentieth-century Expressionism. Using "hard" statistical analysis, Eitan examines the rhythmic, melodic, harmonic, and dynamic configurations associated with contour peaks in the music of Haydn, Chopin, and Berg, three composers of decidedly different t musical casts.