Variations on the Canon

ROBERT L MARSHALL is the Louis, Frances, and Jeffery Sachar Professor Emeritus of Music at Brandeis University. DAVID SCHULENBERG has performed on historical keyboard instruments across North America, Europe and Asia, and has recorded for Naxos, Hungaroton, and Brilliant Classics. His publications include The Music of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (University of Rochester Press, 2014). He has taught at Boston University, the Juilliard School, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he directed the Collegium Musicum. His website schulenbergmusic.org features numerous recordings and editions. JULIAN RUSHTON is Emeritus Professor of Music, University of Leeds, UK. ROBERT L MARSHALL is the Louis, Frances, and Jeffery Sachar Professor Emeritus of Music at Brandeis University.

• Fugue and Its Discontents - Joseph KermanFugues, Form, and Fingering: Sonata Style in Bach's Preludes and Fugues - David SchulenbergNotational Irregularities as Attributes of a New Style: The Case of Haydn's "Sun" Quartet in F Minor, Op. 20, no. 5 - Laszlo SomfaiThe Fugal Moment: On a Few Bars in Mozart's Quintet in C Major, K. 515 - Richard KramerA Tale of Two Quintets: Mozart's K. 452 and Beethoven's Opus 16 - William KindermanVestas Feuer: Beethoven on the Path to Leonore - Lewis LockwoodSonority and Structure: Observations on Beethoven's Early and Middle-Period Piano Compositions - Robert L. MarshallRecomposing the Grosse Fuge: Beethoven and Opus 134 - Prof. Robert WinterSchubert, the Tarantella, and the Quartettsatz, D. 703 - Julian RushtonOn the Scherzando Nocturne - Jeffrey KallbergChopin's Modular Forms - Robert P. MorganThe Hot and the Cold: Verdi Writes to Antonio Somma about Re Lear - Philip GossettThe Ironic German: Schoenberg and the Serenade, Op. 24 - Walter FrischWords for the Surface: Boulez, Stockhausen, and "Allover" Painting - David GableRosen's Modernist Haydn - James WebsterFacile Metaphors, Hidden Gaps, Short Circuits: Should We Adore Adorno? - Leo TreitlerThe Music of a Classical Style - Scott BurnhamMontaigne hors de son propos - Charles RosenTribute: Une culture vraiment intimidante - Pierre BoulezTribute: Charles Rosen for His Eightieth Birthday - Elliott CarterTribute: Charles Rosen: A Personal Appreciation by a Contemporary - Charles MackerrasAppendix 1: A Discography of the Recordings of Charles Rosen - David GableAppendix 2: A Bibliography of the Writings of Charles Rosen - Robert Curry

[Charles Rosen's] reviews show him tackling some of the major issues and names in musicology with an authority that few could muster and in a style that is compulsively readable, a combination of acid and elegance. . . . A series of essays by well-established scholars covering subject areas associated with the honoree [and] three short tributes from Pierre Boulez, Elliot Carter, and Charles Mackerras.