Analyzing the harmony and form of musical compositions remains a valuable tool for students of music, performers, composers, and musicologists. Yet many traditional approaches tend to focus on how complex features can be reduced into simpler categories and questions of unity and coherence. This book advocates an alternative tonal narrative approach, which uses a framework of polarities in dynamic interaction and interdependence to elucidate the life forces animating tonal composit...

One aspect of this subject of revolutionary women, their connection with the secret societies of the day I have purposely ignored. It is obscure and highly controversial. Unfortunately, though these societies have been much, written about, and especially of late, it has often been in a partisan spirit. This book will constantly deal with parties, but I trust not in the spirit of a partisan. Of the three methods of treating this subject, the strictly chronological method, the biographical, ...