WALTER RAYMOND SPALDING
Preface
Contents
CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS
CHAPTER II THE FOLK-SONG
CHAPTER III POLYPHONIC MUSIC; SEBASTIAN BACH
CHAPTER IV THE MUSICAL SENTENCE
CHAPTER V THE TWO-PART AND THREE-PART FORMS
CHAPTER VI THE CLASSICAL AND THE MODERN SUITE
CHAPTER VII THE OLDER RONDO FORM
CHAPTER VIII THE VARIATION FORM
CHAPTER IX THE SONATA-FORM AND ITS FOUNDERS, EMMANUEL BACH AND HAYDN
CHAPTER X MOZART. THE PERFECTION OF CLASSIC STRUCTURE AND STYLE
CHAPTER XI BEETHOVEN, THE TONE-POET
CHAPTER XII THE ROMANTIC COMPOSERS. SCHUBERT AND WEBER
CHAPTER XIII SCHUMANN AND MENDELSSOHN
CHAPTER XIV CHOPIN AND PIANOFORTE STYLE
CHAPTER XV BERLIOZ AND LISZT. PROGRAMME MUSIC
CHAPTER XVI BRAHMS
CHAPTER XVII CESAR FRANCK
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
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
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