Musical Form in the Age of Beethoven: Selected Writings on Theory and Method

by A. B. Marx, Scott Burnham (Editor)

Overview

A. B. Marx was one of the most important German music theorists of his time. This volume offers a generous selection of the most salient of his writings, the majority presented in English for the first time. It features the oft-cited but little understood material on sonata form, his progressive program for compositional pedagogy and his detailed critical analysis of Beethoven's Eroica Symphony. These writings thus deal with issues that fall directly among the concerns of mainstream theory and analysis in the past two centuries.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521452748
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	12/04/1997
Series:	Cambridge Studies in Music Theory and Analysis , #12
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.71(d)

Table of Contents

Foreword Ian Bent; Preface; Introduction: music and spirit; Part I. Music Theory as Education of the Spirit: 1. The Old School of Music in Conflict with our Times: selected excerpts; 2. A Practical and Theoretical Method of Music Composition, vol. I: selected excerpts; Part II. Marx's Formenlehre in Theory and Application: 3. 'Form in music'; 4. A Practical and Theoretical Method of Music Composition, vol. III: selected excerpts; Part III. Hermeneutic Analysis and the Idee; 5. Ludwig van Beethoven: Life and Works: selected excerpts; Select bibliography; Index.

Editorial Reviews

"Students will find that this book will greatly assist their understanding of numerous analytical and theoretical concepts of 18th- and 19th- century music." W. E. Grim, Choice

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