The Beethoven Sonatas and the Creative Experience

Contents

• Preface
• 1. The First Raptus, and All Subsequent Ones
• *The Sounds of Involvement
• 2. Technique as Touch
• 3. Tempo and the Pacing of Musical Ideas
• 4. Dynamic Nuance and Musical Line
• 5. The Role of Silence
• 6. Sound as Color
• *The Sonatas
• 7. Descriptive Music: Op.81a, Op.13
• 8. Motivic Development: Op.2 No.1, Op.57, Op.110
• 9. Quasi una Fantasia: Op.27 Nos.1 and 2, Op.26
• 10. Line and Space: Op. 2 No.2, Op 101
• 11. Movement as Energized Color: Op.53
• 12. The Moment of Creation: Op.28, Op.31 Nos.2 and 3
• 13. Facing Two Directions: Op.49 Nos.1 and 2, Op.54, Op. 78, Op. 90
• 14. The Enjoyment of Fluency: Op.10 Nos.2 and 3, Op. 14 No. 2, Op.22, Op.31 No.1, Op.79
• 15. The Cosmopolitan Impostor: Op.2 No.3, Op.14 No.1
• 16. Embracing the Dachstein: Op. 7, Op. 106
• 17. A Higher Revelation: Op.10 No.1, Op.109, Op.111
• 18. The Witness Tree
• *Notes