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Author Ratner, Leonard G.

Title Classic music : expression, form, and style / Leonard G. Ratner
Published New York : Schirmer Books ; London : Collier Macmillan Publishers, [1980]
©1980

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 MELB  780.9033 Rat/Cme  AVAILABLE
Description xvii, 475 pages : music ; 25cm
Contents pt. 1. Expression. Ideas of expression -- Topics -- pt. 2. Rhetoric. Periodicity -- Harmony -- Rhythm -- Melody -- Texture : basic premises -- Texture : chamber music -- Texture : orchestral music -- Texture : vocal music -- Performance -- pt. 3. Form. Small two-reprise forms -- Sonata form -- Couplet form -- Forms of the learned style -- Aria -- Concerto -- Fantasia : introductive, recitative -- Multimovement cycles : composite forms -- pt. 4. Stylistic perspectives. National styles -- High and low styles : serious and comic -- Mozart -- Haydn, Sonata in E flat major -- Beethoven and the classic style
Notes Includes indexes
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 444-449
Subject Classicism in music.
Music -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
Music -- 18th century.
Music -- Europe -- History and criticism -- 19th century.
Music -- Europe -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
LC no. 76057808
ISBN 0028720202