Lessons in Music Form (Summarized Edition)

Lessons in Music Form distills the architecture of tonal works into a graded course of analysis and exercise. Beginning with motive, phrase, cadence, and period, it advances through binary and ternary designs, small song forms, variation, rondo, sonatina, and sonata-allegro, with clear criteria for transition, subordinate theme, development, codetta, and coda. The prose is lucid and prescriptive, ...