In all of the books about rock music, relatively few focus on the purely musical dimensions of the style: dimensions of harmony and melody, tonality and scale, rhythm and meter, phrase structure and form, and emotional expression. The Musical Language of Rock puts forth a new, comprehensive theoretical framework for the study of rock music by addressing each of these aspects. Eastman music theorist and cognition researcher David Temperley brings together a conventional music-analytic approach wi...

•  Preface
•  About the Companion Website
•  1. Introduction
•  1.1 The music of rock
•  1.2 What is rock?
•  1.3 Controversial issues
•  1.4 The corpus
•  2. Scales and Key
•  2.1 Scales in rock: Previous views
•  2.2 A corpus approach to scales in rock
•  2.3 Key-finding
•  3. Harmony
•  3.1 The chordal vocabulary
•  3.2 Harmonic progression
•  3.3 The Line-of-fifths Axis
•  3.4 Common harmonic schem...