Music: An Art and a Language
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MUSIC: AN ART AND A LANGUAGE
BY
WALTER RAYMOND SPALDING
Preface
Contents
Music: an Art and a Language
CHAPTER I
PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS
CHAPTER II
THE FOLK-SONG
CHAPTER III
POLYPHONIC MUSIC; SEBASTIAN BACH
Fugue in E-flat Major, No. VII, in the First Book.
CHAPTER IV
THE MUSICAL SENTENCE
Minuetto of Beethoven’s First Sonata.[58]
First Sentence of the First Movement of the Twelfth Sonata.
CHAPTER V
THE TWO-PART AND THREE-PART FORMS
CHAPTER VI
THE CLASSICAL AND THE MODERN SUITE
LIST OF DANCES
CHAPTER VII
THE OLDER RONDO FORM
CHAPTER VIII
THE VARIATION FORM
CHAPTER IX
THE SONATA-FORM AND ITS FOUNDERS, EMMANUEL BACH AND HAYDN
THE SONATA-FORM OR FIRST-MOVEMENT FORM
CHAPTER X
MOZART. THE PERFECTION OF CLASSIC STRUCTURE AND STYLE
CHAPTER XI
BEETHOVEN, THE TONE-POET
Symphony No. 5[150]
The Coriolanus Overture
CHAPTER XII
THE ROMANTIC COMPOSERS. SCHUBERT AND WEBER
CHAPTER XIII
SCHUMANN AND MENDELSSOHN
Des Abends.
Warum?
Novellette in E major.
Song, Mondnacht.
Overture to Manfred.
Symphony in D Minor.
CHAPTER XIV
CHOPIN AND PIANOFORTE STYLE
Prelude in C Major, Op. 28, No. 1.
Étude in A-flat Major, Op. 25, No. 1.
Mazurka in F-sharp Minor, Op. 6, No. 1.
Polonaise in E-flat Minor, Op. 26, No. 11.
Barcarolle in F-sharp Major, Op. 60.
Scherzo in C-sharp Minor, Op. 39.
CHAPTER XV
BERLIOZ AND LISZT. PROGRAMME MUSIC
The Carnaval Romain Overture (See Supplement No. 57)
Symphonic Poem, Orpheus
The Faust Symphony
Concert Étude, Waldesrauschen (See Supplement No. 59)
CHAPTER XVI
BRAHMS
Sonata for Violin and Pianoforte
Ballade in G minor for Pianoforte (See Supplement No. 60)
Song—Meine Liebe ist grün wie der Fliederbusch (See Supplement No. 61)
CHAPTER XVII
CÉSAR FRANCK
Sonata for Violin and Pianoforte in A Major
Symphonic Variations for Pianoforte and Orchestra
CHAPTER XVIII
THE MODERN FRENCH SCHOOL—D’INDY AND DEBUSSY
CHAPTER XIX
NATIONAL SCHOOLS—RUSSIAN, BOHEMIAN AND SCANDINAVIAN
CHAPTER XX
THE VARIED TENDENCIES OF MODERN MUSIC
Index
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LIST OF COMPOSITIONS REFERRED TO IN THIS WORK
CRITICAL and HISTORICAL ESSAYS
TONAL COUNTERPOINT
Studies in Part-Writing
MODERN HARMONY;
ITS THEORY AND PRACTICE
Arthur Foote, A.M. and Walter R. Spalding, A.M.
FOOTNOTES
CORRECTED MUSIC
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