Here translated for the first time, Jean-Jacques Nattiez's widely hailed comparative guide to the techniques of music analysis focuses on a single vivid passage
"Although absolute music emerged with a matrix of values - the integrity of the subject, the aesthetic autonomy of art, and the intrinsic worth of high culture
A new wave of scholarship inspired by the ways the writers and musicians of the long nineteenth century themselves approached the relationship between music and
Elements of Sonata Theory is a comprehensive, richly detailed rethinking of the basic principles of sonata form in the decades around 1800. This foundational st
When Schubert's contemporary reviewers first heard his modulations, they famously claimed that they were excessive, odd and unplanned. This book argues that the