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This text presents a theory of metrical conflict and applies it to the music of Robert Schumann, thereby placing that composer's distinctive metrical style in focus. The author describes various categories of metrical conflict that characterize the music of Schumann, investigates how states of conflict arise and are manipulated and resolved in the course of compositions, and studies the interaction of metrical conflict with form, pitch structure, and text. The theoretical material is interwoven with commentary by Florestan and Eusebius, fictional characters based on Schumann's names for contrasting aspects of his own personality, who provide numerous illustrations from "their" compositions. Rich in allusions to Schumann's titles, his writings, and his life, this volume should appeal to all who are fond of this composer's music as well as to theorists. This book is intended for music theorists, musicologists, performers, music students

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Book category Books in English The arts Music Music: styles & genres

• Full title: Fantasy Pieces
• Subtitle: Metrical Dissonance in the Music of Robert Schumann
• Author: Harald Krebs
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 304
• EAN: 9780195116236
• ISBN: 0195116232
• ID: 04514291
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• Weight: 616 g
• Dimensions: 242 × 162 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. April 1999

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