Description: The repertoire explored in the collection ranges across a wide variety of genres and includes composers from Charles Ives and the Pet Shop Boys to Thomas Adès and Dmitri Shostakovich.
Review Quotes:
"A triumphant demonstration of structuralism as a living force in contemporary music studies, this volume assembles some of the brightest and best to illuminate the narrative in music and the music in narrative. Klein & Reyland's rich and varied collection marks an important step for music theory's narrative turn."--Michael Spitzer, author of Music as Philosophy: Adorno and Beethoven's Late Style (IUP, 2006)
"Narrative is the hot topic in musical analysis these days, and with 19 substantial pieces, the book can be recommended with enthusiasm to libraries that have holdings in music theory and analysis. . . . Highly recommended."--Choice
"[P]romotes the value of narrative analysis--and the impulse to do it--as simple common sense."--Music Theory Online