| Series |
Studies in the criticism and theory of music
Studies in the criticism and theory of music. ^A221344
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| Contents |
Part I: Theory. Toward a theory of style -- Style analysis -- Part II: History, innovation, and choice. Thoughts about history -- Innovation: reasons and sources -- Choice and replication -- Part III: Music and ideology: a sketch-history of nineteenth-century music -- Romanticism: the ideology of elite egalitarians -- Convention disguised: nature affirmed -- Syntax, form, and unity -- Epilogue: the persistence of Romanticism. |
| Abstract |
This book proposes a theory of style and style change that relates the choices made by composers to the constraints of psychology, cultural context, and musical traditions. The author explores why, out of the abundance of compositional possibilities, composers choose to replicate some patterns and neglect others. He devotes the latter part of his book to a sketch-history of nineteenth-century music and shows explicitly how the beliefs and attitudes of Romanticism influenced the choices of composers from Beethoven to Mahler and into our own time. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-364) and indexes. |
| LCCN | 89031354 |
| ISBN | 0812281780 |
