Introduction
Part 1: Theory
1: Music as Language
2: Criteria for Analysis I
3: Criteria for Analysis II
4: Bridges to Free Composition
5: Paradigmatic Analysis
Part 2: Analyses
6: Liszt, Orpheus (1853-4)
7: Brahms, Intermezzo, op. 119 no.2 (1893), Brahms, Symphony no.
1/ii (1872-76)
8: Mahler, Symphony no. 9/i (1908-09)
9: Beethoven, String Quartet op. 130/i (1825-26), Stravinsky,
Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1920)
Epilogue
Bibliography
Kofi Agawu is Professor of Music at Princeton University and an adjunct professor at the University of Ghana, Legon. He is also author of Representing African Music: Postcolonial Notes, Queries, Positions.
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