HIST-1107EL Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Music Theory, German Idealism, Counterpoint
5 Dec 2020
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Each intermediate stage in the derivation represents an integral form, but one which is problematic in some way and thus requires a yet higher form. After successfully mastering a specific form, the student is introduced to an expanded realm of harmonic and/or contrapuntal possibilities which he then attempts to apply to the form already mastered. There is no introduction of new material without a corresponding application of such material within an actual musical structure. Marx would not consider a musical structure based on harmony alone to be a musical form. Nor will harmony be the defining factor in marx"s subsequent illustration of more involved forms. The justification for this heightened priority of melody is again developmental. Marx locates this origin in a fundamental dynamic impulse. He expresses this underlying principle as a primary opposition between the state of rest and that of motion.
