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The Beethoven Sonatas and the Creative Experience

  • Author: Drake, Kenneth O.

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Contents

  • Preface
  • 1. The First Raptus, and All Subsequent Ones
  • *The Sounds of Involvement
  • 2. Technique as Touch
  • 3. Tempo and the Pacing of Musical Ideas
  • 4. Dynamic Nuance and Musical Line
  • 5. The Role of Silence
  • 6. Sound as Color
  • *The Sonatas
  • 7. Descriptive Music: Op.81a, Op.13
  • 8. Motivic Development: Op.2 No.1, Op.57, Op.110
  • 9. Quasi una Fantasia: Op.27 Nos.1 and 2, Op.26
  • 10. Line and Space: Op. 2 No.2, Op 101
  • 11. Movement as Energized Color: Op.53
  • 12. The Moment of Creation: Op.28, Op.31 Nos.2 and 3
  • 13. Facing Two Directions: Op.49 Nos.1 and 2, Op.54, Op. 78, Op. 90
  • 14. The Enjoyment of Fluency: Op.10 Nos.2 and 3, Op. 14 No. 2, Op.22, Op.31 No.1, Op.79
  • 15. The Cosmopolitan Impostor: Op.2 No.3, Op.14 No.1
  • 16. Embracing the Dachstein: Op. 7, Op. 106
  • 17. A Higher Revelation: Op.10 No.1, Op.109, Op.111
  • 18. The Witness Tree
  • *Notes