A History of Musical Style

A History of Musical StyleStyle the distinctive manner of presentation, construction, and execution in any art is a topic of primary importance in music history. This highly regarded text by noted musicologist Richard Crocker (University of California, Berkeley) takes a much needed fresh look at the subject and attempts to reshape some basic ideas in the light of modern research. Seeking the reasons for stylistic change within the history of style itself (rather than in the

Sixteen appendices

First published more than 100 years ago

this lesser work will charm — and delightfully surprise — admirers and devotees of the great American author

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mathematical ideas

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Based on actual events

only the first part and a few fragments of a draft of the second part exist

Corrected reprint of the original edition

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second only to the Bible