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Musical form in the age of Beethoven : selected writings on theory and method / A.B. Marx ; edited and translated by Scott Burnham.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Marx, Adolf Bernhard, 1795-1866, author.
- Series:
- Cambridge studies in music theory and analysis ; 12.
- Cambridge studies in music theory and analysis ; 12
- Standardized Title:
- Works. Selections. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Music theory.
- Musical analysis.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 197 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1997.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- Contents:
- Foreword / Ian Bent
- Introduction: Music and Spirit
- pt. 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 Musical Composition, vol. I: selected excerpts
- pt. II. Marx's Formenlehre in Theory and Application. 3. "Form in music" 4. A Practical and Theoretical Method of Musical Composition, vol. III: selected excerpts
- pt. III. Hermeneutic Analysis and the Idee. 5. Ludwig van Beethoven: Life and Works: selected excerpts.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-191) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780511091926
- 0511091923
- 9780511582721
- 0511582722
- 9780511008115
- 0511008112
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb07602 hdl
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