Title Statements
- Full title :Classic music : expression, form, and style / Leonard G. Ratner.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:©1980.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Collier Macmillan Publishers, Schirmer Books
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©1980.
The Physical Object
- Description:xvii, 475 pages ; : 25 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0028720202, 9780028720203, 0028726901, 9780028726908
- oclc:ocm06648908
- LC Classification:ML195
- Dewey Decimal:780/.903/3
Table of 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.
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