Musical Motives: A Theory and Method for Analyzing Shape in Music
(Oxford University Press, 2021)
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Brent Auerbach’s Well-Tempered Clavier Project
Click above to follow my progress in recording this monumental work (and to learn more about each of the 96 pieces that comprise it!).
Other Projects
“Tiered Polyphony and Its Determinative Role in the Piano Music of Johannes Brahms." Journal of Music Theory 52/2: 273-320.
Auerbach-TieredPolyphony(JMT08)Download
“Tchaikovsky’s Triumphant Repetitions: Block Composition as a Key to Dynamic Form in the Symphonies Nos. 2 and 3.” Theory and Practice 37/38: 63-109.
Auerbach-TchaikovskyBlockCompositionSymsDownload
contact: auerbach@music.umass.edu