Music Analysis in the Nineteenth Century

Fugue, Form and Style, Vol. 1

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Edited by Ian D. Bent

Cambridge University Press

Due/Published May 1994, 391 pages, cloth

ISBN 052125969x

In this second volume of music analysis, Ian Bent provides a 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. The writing here involves a metaphorical style with some pure examples mixed with technical analysis. The music analyzed is among the best-known in the repertoire. Professor Bent presents each analysis with its own detailed introduction and explanatory footnotes.