Two-Dimensional Sonata Form is the first book dedicated to the combination of the movements of a multimovement sonata cycle with an overarching single-movement

"Nobody writes better about music .... again and again, unerring insight into just the features that make the music special and fine."--The New York Review of B

Franz Liszt was preoccupied with a fundamental but difficult question: what is the content of music? His answer lay in his symphonic poems, a group of orchestra

Elements of Sonata Theory is a comprehensive, richly detailed rethinking of the basic principles of sonata form in the decades around 1800. This foundational st

This study analyzes chamber music from Mozart's time within its highly social salon-performance context.