{"product_id":"in-the-process-of-becoming-analytic-and-philosophical-perspectives-on-form-in-early-nineteenth-century-music-9780190258184","title":"In the Process of Becoming: Analytic and Philosophical Perspectives on Form in Early Nineteenth-Century Music","description":"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\u003cbr\u003eof 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\u003cbr\u003einvestigation. A recurring metaphor in early nineteenth-century philosophical writings is the notion of becoming. \u003cem\u003e In the Process of Becoming\u003c\/em\u003e explores the idea of form coming into being in respect to music by Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Chopin, and Schumann. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A critical assessment of Dahlhaus's preoccupation with the opening of Beethoven's Tempest Sonata serves as the author's starting point for the translation of philosophical ideas into music-analytical terms. Due to the ever-growing familiarity of late eighteenth-century audiences with formal\u003cbr\u003econventions, composers could increasingly trust that performers and listeners would be responsive to striking formal transformations. Schmalfeldt's unique analytic method captures the dynamic, quasi-narrative nature of such transformations. This experiential approach invites listeners and\u003cbr\u003eperformers to participate in the interpretation of processes by which, for example, brooding introduction-like openings become main themes and huge formal expansions offer a dazzling opportunity for multiple retrospective reinterpretations. Above all, \u003cem\u003eIn the Process of Becoming\u003c\/em\u003e proposes new ways of\u003cbr\u003ehearing beloved works of the romantic generation as representative of a quest for novel, intensely self-reflective modes of communication.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Janet Schmalfeldt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/03\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780190258184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJanet Schmalfeldt \u003c\/strong\u003eis Professor of Music at Tufts University. She has taught at McGill University and at Yale, where she was awarded the Clauss Prize for Teaching Excellence in the Humanities. In 1997-99 she served as President of the Society for Music Theory. Her publications include \u003cem\u003eBerg's\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Wozzeck\": Harmonic Language and Dramatic Design\u003c\/em\u003e (Yale, 1983) and numerous journal articles.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39927195500659,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":47.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_ea178ddd-1730-4e3e-a779-c4ebcb4b9e8b.jpg?v=1647524095","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/in-the-process-of-becoming-analytic-and-philosophical-perspectives-on-form-in-early-nineteenth-century-music-9780190258184","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}