The author was active as a conductor, music-teacher, editor, composer and musicologist. The ingenuity of his writings on musical theory derives from this versatility. Bárdos explains Bartók’s and Kodály’s stylistic components with regard to melody, tonality, harmony, polyphony and form. The reader is also introduced to a specific mode of melody formation so far unknown in the common knowledge about music, i. e. organics.
Principles of Sonata Form Analysis: the Case of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 1, 1st Movement
Source(s) of analysis: Score Musical work: Piano Sonata Op. 2 No. 1 Year of creation: 1795 Composer's name: Ludvig van Beethoven Methods of analysis: Conventional / Traditional analysis, Formal analysis
Target Group / Study LevelLevel of music analysis knowledge: Advanced, Beginner, Intermediate
Study cycle: Bachelor
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