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Klappentext This book provides extensive annotated translations of the writings of the music theorist Ernst Kurth (1886 1946). Zusammenfassung This book provides a selection of annotated translations from Ernst Kurth's three best-known publications: Grundlagen des linearen Kontrapunkts (1917)! Romantische Harmonik und ihre Krise in Wagners 'Tristan' (1920)! and Bruckner (1925). Kurth's contemporaries considered these books to be pioneering studies in the music of J. S. Bach! Wagner and Bruckner. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword Ian Bent; Preface; Notes on the translation; Introduction; Part I. Grundlagen des linearen Kontrapunkts (Foundations of linear counterpoint): 1. Polyphonic structure 2. Thematic and motivic processes 3. Polyphonic melody; Part II. Romantische Harmonik und ihre Krise in Wagners 'Tristan' (Romantic harmony and its crisis in Wagner's 'Tristan'): 4. Details of Romantic harmony 5. Broader dimensions of Romantic harmony; Part III. Bruckner: 6. Bruckner's form as undulatory phases; 7. Details of Bruckner's symphonic waves; Appendix: complete tables of contents for Kurth's Grundlagen des linearen Kontrapunkts, Romantische Harmonik und ihre Krise in Wagners 'Tristan' and Bruckner; Select bibliography; Index of musical examples; General index.
