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Style in Musical Art: An Inaugural Lecture Delivered at Oxford on March (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

C. Hubert H. Parry

 
9780483975002: Style in Musical Art: An Inaugural Lecture Delivered at Oxford on March (Classic Reprint)

Synopsis

Exploring how style reveals the mind of music

This inaugural Oxford lecture traces how musical style grows from instruments, forms, and audiences. It explains why composers make the choices they do and how those choices shape what we hear.

This edition surveys a long view of Western music, from early polyphony to the Classical era, focusing on how texture, thematic material, and organization affect expression. It uses concrete musical examples to show how style emerges and evolves, without getting lost in theory.
  • How different instruments and textures influence musical ideas
  • The shift from single-part subjects to more developed harmonic subjects
  • Key figures and works that illustrate changing approaches to form and design
Ideal for readers of music history, performers, students, and anyone curious about how artStyle in Musical Art shapes our experience of sound.

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