Author: Heinrich Schenker
Publisher:
ISBN: 0195122372
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
The first volume of a two-volume translation of Heinrich Schenker's 'Der Tonwille' (1921-24). This book includes Schenker's original, major essays on Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and piano sonatas by Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, shorter analyses of Bach preludes and writings that provide an extensive account of the philosophical and cultural background from which Schenker's theories emerged.