- Introduction
- The Musical Language of the Late Eighteenth Century[rtoc]
- Period style and group style
- Tonality
- Tonic-dominant polarity
- Equal temperament
- Modulation
- Weakening of linear form[/rtoc]
- Theories of Form[rtoc]
- Nineteenth-century conception of sonata form
- Twentieth-century revisions
- Schenker
- Motivic analysis
- Vulgar errors[/rtoc]
- The Origins of the Style[rtoc]
- Dramatic character of the classical style
- Range of styles 1755-1775
- Public and private music
- Mannerist period
- Proto-classical symmetries and patterns
- Determinants of form[/rtoc]
- The Classical Style
- The Coherence of the Musical Language[rtoc]
- Periodic phrase
- Symmetry and rhythmic transition
- Homogenous (Baroque) vs. heterogeneous (classical) rhythmic systems
- Dynamics and ornamentation
- Rhythmic and dynamic transition
- Haydn Quartet op. 33 no. 3
- Harmonic transition (modulation)
- Decorative v. dramatic styles
- Conventional material
- Tonal stability and resolution
- Recapitulation and articulation of tension
- Reinterpretation and secondary tonalities
- Subdominants
- Contrast of themes
- Reconciliation of contrasts, symmetrical resolution
- Relation of large form to phrase, expansion technique
- Haydn Piano Trio, H. 19
- Correspondence of note, chord, and modulation
- Articulation of rhythm, weight of individual beat
- Sonata style and eccentric material: fantasy form, Mozart, Fantasy K. 475
- Audible vs. inaudible form
- Extra-musical influence
- Wit in music[/rtoc]
- Structure and Ornament[rtoc]
- Sonata forms generalized
- Structure vs. ornament
- Ornamentation in the late eighteenth century
- Radical change in function of decoration[/rtoc]
- Haydn from 1770 to the Death of Mozart
- String Quartet
- Symphony
- Serious Opera
- Mozart
- The Concerto
- String Quartet
- Comic Opera
- Haydn After the Death of Mozart
- The Popular Style
- Piano Trio
- Church Music
- Beethoven
Topics covered by this book
- Fantasia in C minor, K. 475 (music) • p91
- Piano trio No. 33 in G minor, Hoboken XV:19 (music) • p83
- String Quartet, Op. 33 No. 3 in C major “The Bird” (music) • p65
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