Musical form in the age of Beethoven : selected writings on theory and method / A.B. Marx ; edited and translated by Scott Burnham.

ISBN:

9780511582721

9780511008115

9780521452748

Title:

Musical form in the age of Beethoven : selected writings on theory and method / A.B. Marx ; edited and translated by Scott Burnham.

Author:

Marx, Adolf Bernhard, 1795-1866.

Personal Author:

Marx, Adolf Bernhard, 1795-1866.

Uniform Title:

Works. Selections. English. 1997

Publication Information:

Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 197 pages) : music.

Series:

Cambridge studies in music theory and analysis ; 12

Contents:

Introduction : music and spirit -- pt. I. Music theory as education of the spirit. The old school of music in conflict with our times : selected excerpts -- A practical and theoretical method of musical composition, vol. I : selected excerpts -- pt. II. Marx's Formenlehre in theory and application. "Form in music" -- A practical and theoretical method of musical composition, vol. III : selected excerpts -- pt. III. Hermeneutic analysis and the idee -- Ludwig van Beethoven: life and works: selected excerpts.

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Subject Term:

Music theory -- 19th century.

Musical analysis.

Added Author:

Burnham, Scott G.

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Publication Date:

1997

Publication Information:

Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997.

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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.

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This book contains translations of excerpts from the works of an extremely important 19th-century German music theorist. Although Marx's voluminous writings influenced much of contemporary understanding of sonata form and other compositional procedures, very little has ever appeared in translation. As a result, Marx is one of the most frequently referenced and most infrequently read music theorists. Perhaps the most significant accomplishment of these translations is to demonstrate that Marx conceived of sonata form as an organic process and not as a normative or reductionist formal procedure. Students will find that this book will greatly assist their understanding of numerous analytical and theoretical concepts of 18th- and 19th-century music, particularly when they read it in conjunction with Charles Rosen's Sonata Forms (CH, Dec'80) and The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven (CH, May'73; rev. ed., CH, Jul'97), and Leonard Ratner's Classic Music: Expression, Form, and Style (CH, May'81). Useful select bibliography and index and numerous musical examples. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals. W. E. Grim; Worcester State College

ForewordIan 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

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