Sonata Forms 2e

Sonata Forms 2e

by C Rosen (Author)

Synopsis

Charles Rosen says of sonata form: [It] is not a definite form like a minuet, a da capo aria, or a French overture; it is, like the fugue, a way of writing, a feeling for proportion, direction, and texture rather than a pattern.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 432
Edition: Revised
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 14 Sep 1988

ISBN 10: 0393302199
ISBN 13: 9780393302196

Author Bio
Charles Rosen, professor of music and social thought at the University of Chicago, has also taught at the State University of New York-Stony Brook and delivered the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard University. His recitals and other performances have won the highest critical acclaim, as have his books, The Classical Style and The Romantic Generation. When he is not concertizing, Rosen lives in New York.