Approaching Musical Classicism—Understanding Styles and Style Change in Eighteenth-Century Instrumental Music

01 October 1980 I Historical/stylistic periods in music are both useful and perplexing concepts; they simultaneously clarify and hinder one's perception of a given period and a given work. Part of the difficulty arises from a general lack of agreement as to what...

Half-Notes Demystified in the First Movement of Beethoven's String Quartet, Op. 59, No. 1

01 October 1984 In view of the extensiveness of the commentary on Beethoven's music it is perhaps unusual that there exists a short passage in the opening movement of the first "Rasumovsky" Quartet (Op. 59, No. 1) which analysts have either avoided or have dealt with...

[i]Music in Education[/i], edited by Willis Grant

01 October 1965 curricula for music education majors, and those interested in the purpose of music in higher education. authors: Rey M. Longyear author_ids: 1232 authors: Rey M. Longyear author_ids: 1232

Teleology and Structural Determinants in Beethoven's C# Minor Quartet, Op. 131

01 October 1990 into unconnected succession or arbitrary dissociation. An interesting view of these contrasts is considered by Rey M. Longyear, "Beethoven and Romantic Irony," The Creative World of Beethoven, ed. Paul Henry Lang (New York: Norton, 1971), 145-62. 2See...