Materials and Techniques of Post-Tonal Music, Fifth Edition provides the most comprehensive introduction to post-tonal music and its analysis available. Covering music from the end of the nineteenth century through the beginning of the twenty-first, 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 updated fifth edition features:

• chapters revised throughout to include new examples from recent music and insights from the latest scholarship;
• the introduction of several new concepts and topics, including parsimonius voice-leading, scalar transformations, the New Complexity, and set theory in less chromatic contexts;
• expanded discussions of spectralism and electronic music;
• timelines in each chapter, grounding the music discussed in its chronological context;
• a companion website that provides students with links to recordings of musical examples discussed in the text and provides instructors with an instructor#65533;s manual that covers all of the exercises in each chapter.

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