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In the process of becoming : analytic and philosophical perspectives on form in early nineteenth-century music / Janet Schmalfeldt.

Author/creator Schmalfeldt, Janet, 1945- author.
Format Book and Print
Publication Info New York : Oxford University Press, [2011]
Copyright Notice ©2011
Descriptionxi, 337 pages : illustrations, music, portraits ; 24 cm.
Subject(s)
Series Oxford studies in music theory
Oxford studies in music theory. ^A696826
Contents 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 thirds progression and his Cello sonata, op. 65 -- Coming home.
Abstract 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. The author's account 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 listeners, and when music itself became a topic for renewed philosophical investigation.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 309-323) and index.
LCCN 2010012668
ISBN9780195093667
ISBN0195093666
ISBN9780190258184 (paperback)
ISBN0190258187 (paperback)

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Music Music Stacks ML196 .S35 2011 ✔ Available Place Hold