All You Have to Do is Listen by Rob Kapilow -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

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