Author: Ratner, Leonard G.
Title: Classic Music: Expression, Form, and Style
Description: New York/ London, Schirmer Books / Collier Macmillan Publishers, 1980. Softcover. Blue wraps with gold lettering; xvii, 475 pp, music. Contents: pt. 1. Expression. Ideas of expression -- Topics -- pt. 2. Rhetoric. Periodicity -- Harmony -- Rhythm -- Melody -- Texture : basic premises -- Texture : chamber music -- Texture : orchestral music -- Texture : vocal music -- Performance -- pt. 3. Form. Small two-reprise forms -- Sonata form -- Couplet form -- Forms of the learned style -- Aria -- Concerto -- Fantasia : introductive, recitative -- Multimovement cycles : composite forms -- pt. 4. Stylistic perspectives. National styles -- High and low styles : serious and comic -- Mozart -- Haydn, Sonata in E flat major -- Beethoven and the classic style. Good (Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine, inside front and rear covers, ffep and block. Light shelfwear to wraps and block. Pages are otherwise clean.) .

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