From Silence to Sound: Beethoven's Beginnings

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Foreword by Lewis Lockwood
Preface
Chapter One: Begin at the Beginning
Chapter Two: Conventions of Beginning
Chapter Three: Unconventional Beginnings
Chapter Four: Beginning as Structural Unit
Chapter Five: Special Beginnings
Chapter Six: Beginning as Public Statement
Chapter Seven: Fighting for Perfection
Chapter Eight: Conclusions
Appendix 1: Key Distribution in the Principal Works of Beethoven
Appendix 2: Compositions Cited
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This book discusses the myriad ways in which Beethoven begins his works and the structural, rhetorical, and emotional implications of these beginnings for listeners. Examining the opening moments of nearly 200 compositions, it offers a new method of analysis of Beethoven's music. At the same time, it sets Beethoven's work in context through a close study of beginnings in the compositions of the Classical Era.

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Jeremy Yudkin...is an expert guide, taking the reader through an enormous number of musical examples

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