Mozart's Real Joke

01 October 1986 warning us against regarding customary procedures as inviolable rules. 12The symbols used in this discussion derive from Jan LaRue, Guidelines for Style Analysis (New York: Norton, 1970); see in particular Chapter 7, pp. 153-58. 13Versuch einer...

An Essay on Word Painting

01 October 1984 3As far as I know, the first comprehensive analytical program to allow text-influence a significant role in its scheme is Jan LaRue's Guidelines for Style Analysis (New York: Norton, 1970). LaRue makes a good beginning, although he is concerned chiefly...

Analysis Applied to Performance

01 October 1979 the potential influence of adequate analysis in suggesting and supporting an interpretation should be clear. 1See Jan LaRue, "Style Analysis as an Approach to Courses in Music," SYMPOSIUM 14 (1974), 146-148. Also see p. 150. 2I first became aware of...

C. P. E. Bach His Mark

01 October 1979 flashes of fire with touches of sentiment in a declamatory flow that artfully conceals its neatly poised structure. Jan LaRue used to tell his students that they could usually expect to find in compositions by C.P.E. Bach at very least "one eloquent...