En bok som vann priser när den först kom 1980. Det är en bok till alla som gillar klassisk musik och vill bättre förstå hur man komponerar en concerto, en symphoni, mm med formen sonata som underliggande struktur. Analyser av delar av sonatas av Beethoven, Mozart finns med.

Utgivare : WW Norton & Co (1 April 1980)

Språk : Engelska

Inbunden : 344 sidor

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"An excellent journey through the history of the sonata, as well as a thorough delving into a definition of that slippery form. also, some nice information about various composers and the social climates in which they were composing/reacting to."

In his prize-winning book The Classical Style, 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."