Beyond Orpheus: Studies in Musical Structure

by David Epstein

Book Overview

Beyond Orpheus is a study of the elements of musical structure and the ways they provide unity, coherence and uniqueness in classic-romantic music. The book rests in part upon Arnold Schoenberg's concept of Grundgestalt, or Basic Shape, as the singular germinal source from which all aspects of a musical work arise. Though Schoeberg based his philosophy of composition upon this idea, he discussed it explicitly in his writings only minimally. Beyond...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262050161
• ISBN13: 9780262050166
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.