Music Analysis in the Nineteenth Century: Volume 2, Hermeneutic Approaches

by John Stevens and Peter le Huray

Book Overview

In this second volume of nineteenth-century music analyses, Ian Bent provides a further selection of newly translated writings of nineteenth-century music critics and theorists, including composers such as Wagner, Schumann and Berlioz, and critics such as A. B. Marx and E. T. A. Hoffmann. Where Volume I, on Fugue, Form and Style, presented nineteen analyses of a technical nature, all the writing here involves a metaphorical style of verbalised description,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052167347X
• ISBN13: 9780521673471
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.7" x 9.6"