Frontcover -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Beethoven and the Background to Key Symbolism -- 2 Beethoven and Meaning in Primary Keys -- 3 Beethoven and Meaning in Secondary Keys -- 4 Songs and the Affective Implications of Primary Tonality -- 5 Songs Containing Signif…
Building on the remarkable correlation between key and tonal affect found in his vocal music, this book establishes an understanding of the way in which Beethoven uses tonality affectively. Following an Introduction that outlines a justification for revisiting the concept of mea…
Frontcover -- Contents -- Foreword by Leon Fleisher -- Introduction by Peter Serkion -- A Biography of Max Rudolf -- A Biography of Malcolm Frager -- Acknowledgments -- The Letters
"Quoted here is one of over 300 letters in the correspondence between Malcolm Frager and Max Rudolf covering the period from April 1982 to September 1991. This collection reveals the range of musical discourse between two functioning geniuses whose whole lives were devoted to mu…