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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
- A
  - B
  - C
  - D
  - E
  - F
  - G
  - H
  - I
  - J
  - K
  - L
  - M
  - N
  - O
  - P
  - Q
  - R
  - S
  - T
  - V
  - W
- 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