Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
PREFACE
Acknowledgements
HOW TO USE THE WEB SITE
PRELUDE
Chapter 1 - Does Music Have a Plot?
A Plot by Haydn
Chapter 2 - Beginnings Are Everything
“Sticky” Ideas
It’s Got Rhythm
Music without Words
First Impressions
Chapter 3 - Repetition
Exact Repeats
Transposed Repeats
What Does It All Mean?
A Dazzling, Summarizing Example
Chapter 4 - Comma, Semicolon, Period
Comma, Semicolon, Period
Comma
Semicolon/Period
Deception and Delay
One Hundred Years Later
Contemporary Music
Atonal Music
Cadere: To Fall
Cadences
Chapter 5 - Compared-to-What Listening
Compared-to-What Mozart
Compared-to-What Haydn: From Phrase to Section
One Hundred Years Later It’s Still Compared-to-What
Compared-to-What Debussy: The Art of Reharmonization
Haydn Redux
Chapter 6 - Forward-Backward Listening
A Forward-Backward Nursery Rhyme
What Just Happened?
What Does It Mean?
Retrospective Music
Forward-Backward Beethoven
Are We There Yet?
How Things Turn Out
Walking in the Fog
Chapter 7 - The Challenge of Memory
Remembering Callahan
Remembering Schumann
Remembering X
Remembering X, Y, and Z
Rejecting Memory
Cultural Memory
Chapter 8 - Form Is a Verb
Popular Music
“I Got Rhythm” Redux
“Home”-“Away”-“Home”
Cadences Are Everything
Ex-Post-Facto Forms
“Träumerei”
“Away”-“Home”
Chapter 9 - From Dancing to Listening
From Life to Art
Two-Repeat Form
Two Parts or Three Parts?
Chapter 10 - Sonata Form
Three-Act Stories
Musical Travel: Key and Modulation
Act I: The Exposition
Act I: Part II
Act II: The Development
Act III: The Recapitulation
A Final Thought
Chapter 11 - Passacaglia, Chaconne, and Fugue
An Obstinate Bass
“Dido’s Lament”
“Remember Me”
Chaconne/Passacaglia, Passacaglia/Chaconne
Modern Versions
Fugue
Fischer’s Fugue
Bach’s Fugue
Chapter 12 - How Could This Come from That?
A French “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star”
What Is a Variation?
Decoration as Idea
The Meaning of a Variation
Bass, Mode, Meter, and Harmony
The Beethoven Revolution
From Simple to Abstract
Abstract Hearing: How Could This Come from That?
Chapter 13 - The Individual versus the Community
To Dispute or to Unite?
The Ritornello
The Solo Sections
Community in the Classical World
The End of the Beginning or the Beginning of the End?
Chapter 14 - Finished versus Complete
Definitions and Distinctions
Romantically Incomplete: Schumann
Romantically Incomplete: Chopin
Romantically Incomplete: Liszt
The Need for Closure
Is the Unfinished Symphony Unfinished?
Finished yet Incomplete
POSTLUDE
GLOSSARY
CREDITS
INDEX