Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-323) and index.
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Introduction: the idea of musical form as process -- The Beethoven-Hegelian tradition and the "Tempest" sonata -- The processual legacy of the late eighteenth century -- Beethoven's "Bridgetower" sonata, op. 47 -- On performance, analysis, and Schubert -- Music that turns inward : new roles for interior movements and secondary themes -- Mendelssohn the "Mozartean" -- ...sed non eodem modo : Chopin's ascending thirds progression and his Cello sonata, op. 65 -- Coming home.
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With their insistence that form is a dialectical process in the music of Beethoven, Theodor Adorno and Carl Dahlhaus emerge as the guardians of a long-standing critical tradition in which Hegelian concepts have been brought to bear on the question of musical form. Janet Schmalfeldt's account of this Beethoven-Hegelian tradition restores to the term "form" some of its philosophical associations in the early nineteenth century, when profound cultural changes were yielding new relationships between composers and listeners, and when music itself became a topic for renewed philosophical investigation.--from publisher description.