Musical Form in the Age of Beethoven
Selected Writings on Theory and Method
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Part of Cambridge Studies in Music Theory and Analysis
- Real Author: A. B. Marx
- Editor: Scott Burnham
- Date Published: November 2006
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521026789
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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.
Read more- This is the only available English translation of some of the most important music theoretical writings of the nineteenth century
- The writings have been selected and edited so as to present Marx's musical thought directly and authentically
- Contains important sections on the music of Beethoven
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- Date Published: November 2006
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521026789
- length: 216 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 152 x 14 mm
- weight: 0.331kg
- contains: 133 music examples
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Foreword Ian Bent
Preface
Introduction: music and spirit
Part 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 Music Composition, vol. I: selected excerpts
Part II. Marx's Formenlehre in Theory and Application:
3. 'Form in music'
4. A Practical and Theoretical Method of Music Composition, vol. III: selected excerpts
Part III. Hermeneutic Analysis and the Idee
5. Ludwig van Beethoven: Life and Works: selected excerpts
Select bibliography
Index.
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