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In the Process of Becoming Analytical and Philosophical Perspectives on Form in Early Nineteenth-Century Music

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ISBN-10: 0195093666

ISBN-13: 9780195093667

Edition: 2010

Authors: Janet Schmalfeldt

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With their insistence that form is a dialectical process in the music of Beethoven, Theodor Adorno and Carl Dahlhaus emerge as the guardians of a long-standing critical tradition in which Hegelian concepts have been brought to bear on the question of musical form. Janet Schmalfeldt's ground-breaking account of the development of this Beethoven-Hegelian tradition restores to the term "form" some of its philosophical associations in the early nineteenth century, when profound cultural changes were yielding new relationships between composers and their listeners, and when music itself-in particular, instrumental music-became a topic for renewed philosophical investigation. Precedents for…    
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Book details

List price: $53.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/2/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

Preface
Introduction: The Idea of Musical Form as Process
The Beethoven-Hegelian Tradition and the �Tempest� Sonata
The Processual Legacy of the Late Eighteenth Century
Beethoven's �Bridgetower� Sonata, Op. 47
On Performance, Analysis, and Schubert
Music That Turns Inward: New Roles for Interior Movements and Secondary Themes
Mendelssohn the �Mozartean�
…sed non eodem modo: Chopin's Ascending-Third Progression and His Cello Sonata, Op. 65
Coming Home
Notes
Bibliography
Index