Musical Form in the Age of Beethoven: Selected Writings on Theory and Method: 12 (Cambridge Studies in Music Theory and Analysis, Series Number 12) - Hardcover

Marx, A. B.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521452740 ISBN 13: 9780521452748

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1997

Synopsis

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.

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Review

"Students will find that this book will greatly assist their understanding of numerous analytical and theoretical concepts of 18th- and 19th- century music." W. E. Grim, Choice

Book Description

A selection of the writings of A. B. Marx, one of the most important German music theorists of his time. Includes material on sonata form, his progressive program for compositional pedagogy and detailed critical analysis of Beethoven's 'Eroica'.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521452740
• ISBN 13: 9780521452748
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 216
• Editor: Burnham Scott