Closure and Mahler's Music
The Role of Secondary Parameters

Robert G. Hopkins (Author)

9780812282153

Hardback, published 29 July 1990

210 pages, 75 music examples, 22 illus.
25.4 x 17.8 x 1.9 cm, 0.538 kg

Through scrupulous and perceptive analyses, Hopkins shows how parameters other than melody, harmony, and rhythm compensate for the weakening of tonal syntax in Mahler's music.
Closure and Mahler's Music provides a conceptual framework that can enhance understanding of the stylistic changes that took place during the first part of the twentieth century.