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Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press
Published:
1993
Language:
English
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Series: Studies in the History of Music, 5. Physical description: xii, 311 pages: illustrations; 25 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-301) and index. Contents: 1. Introduction: repetition and decoration--2. The rhetoric of variation: Rhetoric and classical composers; Rhetoric and variation; Figures of rhetoric and music; Figures for variation form; Rhetorical analysis--3. Variation as form and technique in eighteenth-century musical writings: Improvised and composed variation technique; Improvised and composed variation form--4. The variation in the universe of classical musical forms: Expansion techniques; Principal periods; Haydn's expansions; Variation and expanded forms--5. Convention and innovation in Haydn's variations to 1780: Early variations; The watershed of 1772; Haydn's "creative periods"; Hybrid variations: principles and development--6. Synthesis: Haydn's variations in the 1780s and 1790s: Symphonies; Quartets; Keyboard works--7. Mozart's variations: Inventio: choice and adaptation of themes; Dispositio: ordering of variations; Elaboratio: figures and figurations--8. Conclusion: Beethoven and the transformation of the classical variation: Decorum; Piano variations and the "new way"; Eroica: transformation of the alternating variation--Appendix A: Variations of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven [list of works]--Appendix B: Extended original-language quotations. Subjects: Haydn, Joseph 1732-1809; Variations; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus 1756-1791; Beethoven, Ludwig van 1770-1827; Variations Analysis, appreciation; Variations History and criticism 18th century; Instrumental music Analysis; Retorica; Music History and criticism Classical; Musical form; Composition (Music); Austria. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.
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