September 2010
Beginner
376 pages
12h 7m
English
Rotational form is a new idea formulated by Warren Darcy and James Hepokoski to explain the compositional strategies in very late Romantic and 20th-century tonal works by composers such as Richard Wagner, Gustav Mahler, Jean Sibelius, and Anton Bruckner.1

The form is based on a series of themes or motives that is constantly repeated in order, but each new rotation develops the motivic ideas, so it is a combination of repetition and development. The first rotation ...
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