Style and Music
Subtitle: Theory, History, and Ideology
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: March 15, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 385
ISBN-13: 9780226521527
Subjects: Romantic music (c 1830 to c 1900); Theory of music & musicology; Music Of The 19th Century; Music; Music/Songbooks; Instruction & Study - Appreciation; Reference; Music / Reference; History & Criticism - General; Instruction & Study - Theory; 19th century; Philosophy and aesthetics; Romanticism in music; Style, Musical
First sentence: I begin, perhaps somewhat unceremoniously, with a definition: Style is a replication of patterning, whether in human behavior or in the artifacts produced by human behavior, that results from a series of choices made within some set of constraints.