The Piece as a Whole: Studies in Holistic Musical Analysis

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Preface
Introduction Chopin:
Prelude No. 7 in A Major The Split Fifth: A Cautionary Tale Chopin:
Prelude No. 4 in E Minor Meaning in Music Some Mozart Excerpts Beethoven: Fifth Symphony Three Beethoven Excerpts Aesthetics: Aesthetics Meets Ethics Two Schumann Songs and a Bit of Brahms J. S. Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I Wagner:
Prelude to Tristan and Isolde Debussy:
Prelude to The Afternoon of a Faun The Analysis of Twentieth-Century Music Suggestions for Further Reading
Index

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Designed to serve music students at the college level, this informal approach to music theory relates the technical aspects of music with the expressive character of the art. The approach is holistic in the sense that it focuses on the interrelationships between the piece as heard by a socially conditioned listener and the notated, performed score: it aims to bridge the gap between the technical and expressive aspects of music. The composers addressed are: Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann, Brahms, Wagner, Debussy, and Schoenberg. There are separate chapters on the problems of meaning in music and on the interdependence of aesthetic and ethical value-judgments. This novel and exciting approach to music theory will be a welcome addition to the musical analysis literature.

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