Beyond Orpheus: Studies in Musical Structure by David Epstein

Beyond Orpheus: Studies in Musical Structure

David Epstein

244 pages first pub 1979 (editions)

essays music informative reflective medium-paced
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Beyond Orpheus is a study of the elements of musical structure and the ways they provide unity, coherence and uniqueness in classic-romantic music. The book rests in part upon Arnold Schoenberg's concept of Grundgestalt, or Basic Shape, as the sin...

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