Phrasing and Articulation : A contribution to a rhetoric of music with 152 musical examples

CONTENTS -- PART ONE -- General Backround -- Translator's preface to the Norton Library Edition -- Chapter 1. The problem -- Chapter 2. The Language of Music -- Chapter 3. Fundamentals of pharasing -- - Irregularities in the construction of phrases and phrasing -- - Phrasing through extension -- - The phrasing of larger sections -- Chapter 4. Fundamentals of Articulation -- - The legato -- - The staccato -- - Intermediante gradations -- - The effects of intervals, of non-harmonic tone, of rhythm, of pitch and intensity upon articulation -- Chapter 5. Musical Articulation in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries -- - The slur -- - Rest, wedge, and dot -- - The non-legato -- Chapter 6. The Construction of Groups through Articulation -- - Slur and beam -- PART TWO -- Phasing and articulation in the works of Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven -- Chapter 7. Phrasing in the music of Johann Sebastian Bach -- Chapter 8. The articulation of the Bach Chamber Music -- - Legato -- - Staccato -- - Non-legato -- - The articulation of grups -- - Grups of three -- Chapter 9. Articulation in the Unmarked Clavier and Organ Music of Bach -- a) Clavier Works -- The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I -- The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II -- b) Organ Works -- Chapter 10. Aticulation in the works of Mozart -- Chapter 11. Articulation in the works of Beethoven -- Chapter 12. The nineteenth century -- Bibliography -- Index of names --