Studies on the history of musical style.

With a foreword by John W. Grubbs.

1 The narrative element and the study of musical style. 2 The secular polyphony of Guillaume de Machaut. 3 The early development of harmonic polyphony. 4 Two "insignificant" motets by Josquin des Prez. 5 J.S. Bach: the chorale harmonizations and the principles of harmony. 6 The exuberant Bach. 7 Intensity and the classical sonata allegro. 8 Intensity and the romantic sonata allegro. 9 Schoenberg the prophet

'From 1959 onward the author became increasingly interested in finding more meaningful ways to study, write, and talk about music as a communicative art. It was his firmly held belief--a belief stemming perhaps in part from his own experiences as a composer--that music must be approached as a "humanistic phenomenon," an art in which a composer either hopes or expects that some human beings will respond to his musical expression in certain predictable ways.'

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