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[this book] is the single best volume extant if one wishes to learn about the technical conception of music held by one of the greatest composers (and greatest music educators) of modern times.\u003c\/p\u003e * MLA Notes *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is easy to read because there is no analysis without aim, no theoretical viewing without connections to genuine musical aspects.April 2007\u003c\/p\u003e -- Eike Fe * Besprechungen *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e Foreword (2006) by Walter Frisch\u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations of Cited Sources\u003cbr\u003e Editors' Preface\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Commentary\u003cbr\u003e Schoenberg's View of Art\u003cbr\u003e Schoenberg's Preface\u003cbr\u003e The Musical Idea\u003cbr\u003e Comprehensibility and Coherence\u003cbr\u003e Theory of Form\u003cbr\u003e The Constructive Function of Harmony\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003eThe Musical Idea and the Logic, Technique, and Art of Its Presentation\u003cbr\u003e Preface and Overview\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e Title Page\u003cbr\u003e Principles of the Presentation of the Idea\u003cbr\u003e Plan of the Book\u003cbr\u003e The Profundity of the Idea and Its Realization as a Standard\u003cbr\u003e The Musical Idea and the Logic, Technique, and Art of Its Presentation\u003cbr\u003e Idea (1 and 2)\u003cbr\u003e The Idea in the Contrapuntal Art of Composition and Its Presentation\u003cbr\u003e Principles of Construction\u003cbr\u003e Comprehensibility\u003cbr\u003e Laws of Comprehensibility\u003cbr\u003e Coherence\u003cbr\u003e The Laws of Musical Coherence\u003cbr\u003e Elements of Form\u003cbr\u003e The Parts of a Piece\u003cbr\u003e Part\u003cbr\u003e Elements of Form\u003cbr\u003e Phrase\u003cbr\u003e Gestalt\u003cbr\u003e Grundgestalt and Motive\u003cbr\u003e The Difference Between Gestalt and Phrase\u003cbr\u003e Features of the Motive\u003cbr\u003e Statement\u003cbr\u003e Stable Formation\u003cbr\u003e Loose Formation\u003cbr\u003e Theme\u003cbr\u003e Melody\u003cbr\u003e Sonority as a Formative Element\u003cbr\u003e Rhythm\u003cbr\u003e Rhythm\u003cbr\u003e Classification of Rhythms\u003cbr\u003e Accentuation and Nonaccentuation\u003cbr\u003e Formal Procedures\u003cbr\u003e [Formal Procedures]\u003cbr\u003e Articulation\u003cbr\u003e Change, Variation, Variant, Varying\u003cbr\u003e Kinds of Variation\u003cbr\u003e Coherence of \"New Components\"\u003cbr\u003e Mirror Forms\u003cbr\u003e Close\u003cbr\u003e Cadencing\u003cbr\u003e Cadential Fall\u003cbr\u003e Kinds of Connection\u003cbr\u003e Technique of Joining\u003cbr\u003e Condensation\u003cbr\u003e Dissolution, Liquidation\u003cbr\u003e Tendency of the Smallest Notes\u003cbr\u003e The Structural Capacities of the Scale\u003cbr\u003e Wave-Shaped Progression\u003cbr\u003e Contrasts (Contrasting Themes)\u003cbr\u003e Digression from the Main Idea\u003cbr\u003e Principal Idea, Subsidiary Idea\u003cbr\u003e Subordinate Theme\u003cbr\u003e Secondary, Tertiary, etc. Gestalten and Motives\u003cbr\u003e The Shaping of Principal and Subordinate (Accompanying) Voices\u003cbr\u003e Development Section\u003cbr\u003e Sequences\u003cbr\u003e Intensification\u003cbr\u003e Does Repetition Have an Intensifying Effect?\u003cbr\u003e Voice (Independent)\u003cbr\u003e Introduction (1 and 2)\u003cbr\u003e Preparation\u003cbr\u003e Extramusical Means of Coherence\u003cbr\u003e Fantasy\u003cbr\u003e Description of All Forms\u003cbr\u003e Miscellaneous\u003cbr\u003e Performance and Gestalt\u003cbr\u003e The Sense of Rit. and Accel.\u003cbr\u003e Relaxation\u003cbr\u003e Symmetry\u003cbr\u003e Origin of Repetitions\u003cbr\u003e Primitive Principles\u003cbr\u003e Popular Music and Melody\u003cbr\u003e Harmony\u003cbr\u003e The Constructive Function of Harmony\u003cbr\u003e Addendum\u003cbr\u003e Keywords Still to Be Indexed\u003cbr\u003e Keywords\u003cbr\u003e Concordance of Terms\u003cbr\u003e Appendix 1 Descriptions of the Gedanke Manuscripts\u003cbr\u003e Appendix 2 Contents of Manuscript No. 10, Listed in Their Original Order\u003cbr\u003e Appendix 3 German Texts of Unpublished Gedanke Manuscripts Referred to in the Commentary\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index of Musical Examples\u003cbr\u003e Name Index\u003cbr\u003e Subject Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400653283671,"sku":"9780253218353","price":20.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780253218353.jpg?v=1730471215","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/when-doctors-say-no-the-battleground-of-medical-futility-medical-ethics-9780253218353","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}