Conceptualizing Music
Subtitle: Cognitive Structure, Theory, and Analysis (AMS Studies in Music)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: October 10, 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780195187977
First sentence: In the opening eleven measures of the prelude to Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde there are three successive statements of a melodic motive that foreshadows, and then later accompanies, the tragic arc of the opera.