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In this second volume of nineteenth-century music analyses, Ian Bent provides a further selection of newly translated writings of nineteenth-century music critics and theorists, including composers such as Wagner, Schumann and Berlioz, and critics such as A. B. Marx and E. T. A. Hoffmann. Where Volume I, on Fugue, Form and Style, presented nineteen analyses of a technical nature, all the writing here involves a metaphorical style of verbalised description, some pure examples, and others hybrid forms mixed with technical analysis. The music analysed is amongst the best-known in the repertoire: Wagner writes on Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, E. T. A. Hoffmann on the Fifth, Schumann writes on Berlioz, and Berlioz on Meyerbeer. Professor Bent presents each analysis with its own detailed introduction and each is amplified by supporting information in footnotes.
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In this second volume of music analyses, Ian Bent provides a further selection of newly translated writings of nineteenth-century music critics and theorists, including composers such as Wagner, Schumann and Berlioz, and critics such as A. B. Marx and E. T. A. Hoffmann. Where Volume I, on Fugue, Form and Style, presented nineteen analyses of a technical nature, all the writing here involves a metaphorical style of verbalised description, some pure examples and some hybrid forms mixed with technical analysis. The music analysed is amongst the bestknown in the repertoire: Wagner writes on Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, E. T. A. Hoffmann on the Fifth, Schumann writes on Berlioz, and Berlioz on Meyerbeer. Professor Bent presents each analysis with its own detailed introduction and each is amplified by supporting information in footnotes. Cambridge Books Online © Cambridge University Press, 2009 CAMBRIDGE READINGS IN THE LITERATURE OF MUSIC General Editors: John Stevens and Peter le Huray Music Analysis in the Nineteenth Century Volume II: Hermeneutic Approaches CAMBRIDGE READINGS IN THE LITERATURE OF MUSIC Cambridge Readings in the Literature of Music is a series of source materials (original documents in English translation) for students of the history of music. Many of the quotations in the volumes are substantial, and introductory material places the passages in context. The period covered will be from antiquity to the present day, with particular emphasis on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Already published: Andrew Barker: Greek Musical Writings, Volume I: The Musician and His Art Andrew Barker: Greek Musical Writings, Volume II: Harmonic and Acoustic Theory James W. McKinnon: Music in Early Christian Literature Peter le Huray and James Day: Music and Aesthetics in the Eighteenth and EarlyNineteenth Centuries Bojan Bujic: Music in European Thought, 1851-1912 Ian Bent: Music Analysis in the Nineteenth Century, Volume I: Fugue, Form and Style Music Analysis in the Nineteenth Century Volume II Hermeneutic Approaches Edited by Ian Bent Columbia University, New York CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, Sao Paulo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 2RU, UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521461832 © Cambridge University Press 1994 This book is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 1994 This digitally printed first paperback version 2005 A catalogue recordfor this publication is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data Music Analysis in the Nineteent