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With their insistence that form is a dialectical process in the music of Beethoven, Theodor Ador and Carl Dahlhaus emerge as the guardians of a long-standing critical tradition in which Hegelian concepts have been brought to bear on the question of musical form. Janet Schmalfeldt's ground-breaking account of the development of this Beethoven-Hegelian tradition restores to the term form some of its philosophical associations in the early nineteenth century, when profound cultural changes were yielding new relationships between composers and their listeners, and when music itself-in particular, instrumental music-became a topic for renewed philosophical investigation. Precedents for Ador's and Dahlhaus's concept of form as process arise in the Athenaum Fragments of Friedrich Schlegel and in the Encyclopaedia Logic of Hegel. The metaphor common to all these sources is the tion of becoming; it is the idea of form coming into being that this study explores in respect to music by Beethoven, Sch

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PublisherOxford University Press Inc

ISBN-100190258187

ISBN-139780190258184

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Number of Pages352 Pages

Publication NameIn the Process of Becoming : Analytic and Philosophical Perspectives on Form in Early Nineteenth-Century Music

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2017

SubjectMusic & Dance

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaMusic

AuthorJanet Schmalfeldt

SeriesOxford Studies in Music Theory Ser.

FormatPaperback

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Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight17.6 Oz

Item Length9.1 in

Item Width6 in

Height234mm

Width156mm

Weight499g

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Date of Publication27/04/2017

Place of PublicationNew York

Spine23mm

Series TitleOxford Studies in Music Theory

GenreMusic & Dance

Country of PublicationUnited States

Author BiographyJanet Schmalfeldt is Associate Professor of Music Theory at Tufts University. She has taught at McGill University and at Yale, where she was awarded the Clauss Prize for Teaching Excellence in the Humanities in 1993. She is the author of Berg's Wozzeck : Harmonic Language and Dramatic Design and of numerous articles. In 1997-99, she served as President of the Society for Music Theory. Her performances in the role of pianist have included solo, concerto, and chamber music.

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