Variations on the Canon (EPDF) von Robert Curry

Masterful essays honoring the great pianist and critic Charles Rosen, on masterpieces from Bach and Beethoven to Chopin, Verdi, and Stockhausen.

Fugue and Its Discontents - Joseph Kerman
Fugues, Form, and Fingering: Sonata Style in Bach's Preludes and Fugues - David Schulenberg
Notational Irregularities as Attributes of a New Style: The Case of Haydn's "Sun" Quartet in F Minor, Op. 20, no. 5 - Laszlo Somfai
The Fugal Moment: On a Few Bars in Mozart's Quintet in C Major, K. 515 - Richard Kramer
A Tale of Two Quintets: Mozart's K. 452 and Beethoven's Opus 16 - William Kinderman
Vestas Feuer: Beethoven on the Path toLeonore - Lewis Lockwood
Sonority and Structure: Observations on Beethoven's Early and Middle-Period Piano Compositions - Robert L. Marshall
Recomposing theGrosse Fuge: Beethoven and Opus 134 - Prof. Robert Winter
Schubert, the Tarantella, and theQuartettsatz, D. 703 - Julian Rushton
On theScherzando Nocturne - Jeffrey Kallberg
Chopin's Modular Forms - Robert P. Morgan
The Hot and the Cold: Verdi Writes to Antonio Somma aboutRe Lear - Philip Gossett
The Ironic German: Schoenberg and the Serenade, Op. 24 - Walter Frisch
Words for the Surface: Boulez, Stockhausen, and "Allover" Painting - David Gable
Rosen's Modernist Haydn - James Webster
Facile Metaphors, Hidden Gaps, Short Circuits:Should We Adore Adorno? - Leo Treitler
The Music of a Classical Style - Scott Burnham
Montaigne hors de son propos - Charles Rosen
Tribute:Une culture vraiment intimidante - Pierre Boulez
Tribute: Charles Rosen for His Eightieth Birthday - Elliott Carter
Tribute: Charles Rosen: A Personal Appreciation by a Contemporary - Charles Mackerras
Appendix 1: A Discography of the Recordings of Charles Rosen - David Gable
Appendix 2: A Bibliography of the Writings of Charles Rosen - Robert Curry