The technique of variation : a study of the instrumental variation from Antonio de Cabezón to Max Reger.
| Author/creator | Nelson, Robert U. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Berkeley : University of California Press, [1949, ©1948] |
| Description | vii, 197 pages : music ; 26 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | University of California publications in music ; v. 3 University of California publications in music ; v. 3. ^A47018 |
| Contents | The categories of variation technique -- The establishment of the structural techniques: the secular song variation from the Spanish lutenists to J.S. Bach -- The extension of the structural techniques to new variation types: the chorale and basso ostinato variations of the baroque period -- The structural techniques under the influence of changing styles: the ornamental variation of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- The structural techniques under the influence of changing styles: the nineteenth-century character and basso ostinato variations -- The emergence of the free technique in the free variation of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries -- An aesthetic of the variation. |
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| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-188). |
| LCCN | a 48000088 |