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Motives for Allusion: Context and Content in Nineteenth-Century Music.(Book Review)
By Christopher Alan Reynolds. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. [xii, 230 p. ISBN 0-674-01037-X. $45.] Music examples, index.
Motives for Allusion plumbs two difficult questions: what constitutes a musical allusion, and--the larger question--what purposes are served by such allusions? The music from which Christopher Reynolds has drawn his examples is chiefly that written by German and Austrian composers from Beethoven to Richard Strauss. But his methods, mutatis mutandis, could be applied to other repertories.
Page 6 provides the essential definition: "an allusion is an intentional reference to another work made by means of a resemblance ...
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