Meyer, Leonard B,

Style and music : theory, history, and ideology / [print] Leonard B. Meyer. - University of Chicago Press edition. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, (c)1996. - xi, 376 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. - Studies in the criticism and theory of music. .

Originally published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989. (Studies in the criticism and theory of music).



Part I: Theory. 1. Toward a theory of style ; 2. Style analysis -- Part II: History, innovation, and choice. 3. Thoughts about history ; 4. Innovation--reasons and sources ; 5. Choice and replication -- Part III: Music and ideology: a sketch-history of nineteenth-century music. 6. Romanticism--The ideology of elite egalitarians ; 7. Convention disguised--nature affirmed ; 8. Syntax, form, and unity -- Epilogue: The persistence of romanticism.



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GBA0-03210


Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.--19th century
Romanticism in music.

ML430.M612.S795 1996