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Trade Review
"...a major achievement." -Michael L. Klein, author of Music and the Crises of the Modern Subject

Table of Contents

Introduction: Romantic Musical Discourse, Or, A Rhetoric Of Romantic Music

Part I. Fragmentation and Atemporality
1. Fragmentation: Aesthetics of Nineteenth-Century Romanticism
2. Atemporality in Narrative and Music

Part II. Structural and Rhetorical Strategies in Music with and Without Text
3. Music With Text: Two Slow Movements by Brahms
4. Music Without Text: Forms of Atemporality

Part III. Brahms's Piano Sonatas
5. Treatment of the Medial Caesura
6. Treatment of the S-Space
7. Treatment of the Development and Recapitulation
8. Treatment of the Slow Introduction and Coda

Conclusion
Selected Bibliography
Index

Sonata Fragments

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      Publisher: Indiana University Press
      Publication Date: 21/08/2017
      ISBN13: 9780253028938, 978-0253028938
      ISBN10: 0253028930
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      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      "...a major achievement." -Michael L. Klein, author of Music and the Crises of the Modern Subject

      Table of Contents

      Introduction: Romantic Musical Discourse, Or, A Rhetoric Of Romantic Music

      Part I. Fragmentation and Atemporality
      1. Fragmentation: Aesthetics of Nineteenth-Century Romanticism
      2. Atemporality in Narrative and Music

      Part II. Structural and Rhetorical Strategies in Music with and Without Text
      3. Music With Text: Two Slow Movements by Brahms
      4. Music Without Text: Forms of Atemporality

      Part III. Brahms's Piano Sonatas
      5. Treatment of the Medial Caesura
      6. Treatment of the S-Space
      7. Treatment of the Development and Recapitulation
      8. Treatment of the Slow Introduction and Coda

      Conclusion
      Selected Bibliography
      Index

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