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Title: Lessons in Music Form
A Manual of Analysis of All the Structural Factors and
Designs Employed in Musical Composition

Author: Percy Goetschius

Release Date: September 22, 2006 [EBook #19354]

Language: English

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LESSONS IN MUSIC FORM

A MANUAL OF ANALYSIS

OF ALL THE STRUCTURAL FACTORS AND DESIGNS

EMPLOYED IN MUSICAL COMPOSITION

BY

PERCY GOETSCHIUS, MUS. DOC.

(Royal Wuerttemberg Professor)

AUTHOR OF

THE MATERIAL USED IN MUSICAL COMPOSITION, THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF
TONE-RELATIONS, THE HOMOPHONIC FORMS OF MUSICAL COMPOSITION, MODELS OF
THE PRINCIPAL MUSIC FORMS, EXERCISES IN MELODY WRITING, APPLIED
COUNTERPOINT, ETC.

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FOREWORD.

The present manual treats of the structural designs of musical
composition, not of the styles or species of music. Read our AFTERWORD.

It undertakes the thorough explanation of each design or form, from the
smallest to the largest; and such comparison as serves to demonstrate
the principle of natural evolution, in the operation of which the
entire system originates.

This explanation--be it well understood--is conducted solely with a
view to the _Analysis_ of musical works, and is not calculated to
prepare the student for the application of form in practical
composition. For the exhaustive exposition of the technical apparatus,
the student must be referred to my "Homophonic Forms."

The present aim is to enable the student to recognize and trace the
mental process of the com