This vintage book contains a comprehensive treatise on the subject of music form, and includes information on sentencing and phrasing, modulation, rhythm, and much more. This detailed yet accessible text will appeal to those with an interest in improving their knowledge of music form, and will be of special interest to students.

Chapters of this book include:

Rhythm – Sentences and Phrases

The Subdivisions of a Musical Sentence

Sections and Motives

Modulation – Key – Relationship

The Means of Modulation – Modulation by Means of Triads

etcetera. Many antiquarian books such as this are increasingly hard to come by and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this book, now complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.