In the Process of Becoming

by Janet Schmalfeldt

Book Overview

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. Janet Schmalfeldt'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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195093666
• ISBN13: 9780195093667
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.2"