| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 197 pages) : music |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in music theory and analysis ; 12 |
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Cambridge studies in music theory and analysis ; 12.
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| Contents |
Introduction : music and spirit -- pt. I. Music theory as education of the spirit. The old school of music in conflict with our times : selected excerpts -- A practical and theoretical method of musical composition, vol. I : selected excerpts -- pt. II. Marx's Formenlehre in theory and application. "Form in music" -- A practical and theoretical method of musical composition, vol. III : selected excerpts -- pt. III. Hermeneutic analysis and the idee -- Ludwig van Beethoven: life and works: selected excerpts |
| Summary |
A.B. Marx was one of the most important German music theorists of his time. Drawing on idealist aesthetics and the ideology of Bildung, he developed a holistic pedagogical method as well as a theory of musical form that gives pride of place to Beethoven. This volume offers a generous selection of the most salient of his writings, the majority presented here in English for the first time. It features Marx's 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 last two centuries: the relation of form and content, the analysis of instrumental music, the role of pedagogy in music theory, and the nature of musical understanding |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-191) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Music theory -- 19th century
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Musical analysis.
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MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Theory.
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Music theory
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Musical analysis
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Burnham, Scott G.
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| ISBN |
9780511582721 |
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0511582722 |
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0511008112 |
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9780511008115 |
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0521452740 |
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9780521452748 |
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9780521026789 |
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0521026784 |
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