About this title: A new edition of the National Book Award-winning study of the three most popular composers of the Vienna School. Rosen, a professor of music at the University of Chicago, concentrates on the musical relations between the three composers, each of whom took prevailing influences and conventions and reworked them into highly individualized and idiosyncratic styles.
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780393006537ISBN:0393006530
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. No marks on pages. (Cf) Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 467 p. Norton Library, N653. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: Seventh Printing
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York City, New York
Date Published: 1972
ISBN-13:9780393006537ISBN:0393006530
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. "THe word 'masterpiece' should be used rarely if at all. But it applies to Charles Rosen's THE CLASSICA STYLE. This is more than a superbly penetrating, closely argued analysis of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. It is a piece of 'active criticism' which only a very distinguished performer could have achieved. Rosen carries over into English prose those strengths of clarity, scruple, and excitement which he brings to his playing. Simply by itself, this book sets ... read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: Expanded
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Date Published: 1/1/1998
ISBN-13:9780393317121ISBN:0393317129
Description: Fine. 0393317129 **Expanded** NEW/UNREAD! ! ! Text is Clean and Unmarked! --Be Sure to Compare Seller Feedback and Ratings before Purchasing--Has a small black line on bottom/exterior edge of pages. May have light shelf wear to cover from storage, if any. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780393317121ISBN:0393317129
Description: Very Good. 0393317129 Written in 1970, this winner of the National Book Award is perhaps the best guide to the music of the late 18th century that the reader is likely to find. Rosen defines classical music (which, in this case, is probably more properly rendered "Classical, " as it refers to that specific style) through the music of its greatest geniuses: Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven. 533 pages. Your order on its way to you by the next business day! read more
Description: Fine. 0393317129 Norton trade paperback, 6th printing, clean/tight, No marks, slight cover wear only (like new)...Bubble-wrapped and mailed in a Box w/delivery confirmation. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780393006537ISBN:0393006530
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Clean, tight & square. Name of previous owner on title page. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 467 p. Norton Library, N653. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Date Published: 1972-09-01
ISBN-13:9780393006537ISBN:0393006530
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Date Published: 1972
ISBN-13:9780393006537ISBN:0393006530
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Date Published: 1978
ISBN-13:9780571049059ISBN:0571049052
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Date Published: 1998-01-01
ISBN-13:9780393317121ISBN:0393317129
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780393317121. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780393317121ISBN:0393317129
Description: New. Brand New! Buy with confidence-your satisfaction is guaranteed at B-Logistics! Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. Please note that Expedited shipping is not available at this time. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc, Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1972
ISBN-13:9780393006537ISBN:0393006530
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" Tall. This outstanding book treating the three most beloved composers of the Vienna School is considered basic to any study of classical-era music. Drawing on his rich experience and intimate familiarity with the works of these giants, Charles Rosen presents his keen insights in clear and persuasive language. For this expanded edition of The Classical Style, Rosen provides an entirely new, 64-page chapter on the later years of Beethoven and the musical conventions he ... read more
Description: Acceptable. Ships from the UK. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Your purchase also supports literacy charities. read more
"Charles Rosen is one of the great musicologists of the twentieth century and in The Classical Style he does a marvelous job characterizing the classical style as epitomized by its three great masters, Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven.
Of all the formal principles that have defined any period, the elements of classical style are perhaps most amenable to formal analysis. The classical period is principally characterized by sonata form and tonality. We can agree with Sir Donald Tovey that we do violence to compositions by interpreting them as if sonata form constitutes a set of binding rules rather than a post-facto abstraction of what the masters of the classical period actually did. Nonetheless, the principles of tonality may be expressed with an intellectual clarity which is more elusive when characterizing, say, a canon or polyphonic mass.
This is a reflection of the ideals of the classical period, whose audiences delighted in elegance and structural economy. Classical composers highlighted the structural contours defining works by emphasizing modulation and calling attention sectional boundaries with an intensified emphasis cadence. Elegance of structure was taken by the classical masters as an end in itself, and their harmonies glide on a framework they trace and enact. That is in itself a large part of the game of classical composition.
An understanding of the classical period is not only relatively easy to acquire, but of central importance to understanding nearly all subsequent composition. With the arguable exceptions of minimalism and some wings of the avant garde, nearly every important composition in the Occident since Haydn is either tonal or a reaction against tonality. Tonal harmony is the very foundation of our music theory to this day, and understanding its history and development can open up a deeper understanding of everything from Verdi to Schoenberg to Robert Johnson to Kylie Minogue.
Rosen makes all of this remarkably evident and comprehensible in dazzling prose that astonishes the reader with his insight on every page. I'm not a musicologist and browsed through a lot of the close passage analysis that comprises a big chunk of the book, but I still got my money's worth many times over."
"Currently re-reading actually. This is the very best book I've ever read that I hardly understand at all. The really priceless thing is that reading it again has made me listen to Haydn String Quartets. They are sublime. And Mozart String Quintets which are sublime and also gut-wrenching."
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