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 InfoBerkeley : University of California Press, [1949, ©1948]
Descriptionvii, 197 pages : music ; 26 cm.
Subjects

SeriesUniversity 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 noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 183-188).
LCCNa 48000088