Concepts of Musical Unity

Abstract

Abstract Unity is a familiar criterion of value for individual musical compositions, especially for eighteenth-and nineteenth-century European instrumental music and related twentieth-century traditions. But recent discussions suggest that the content and status of this criterion may be unclear. Perhaps we do not always know what we mean by ‘musical unity’; perhaps unity (whatever it is) is not as important or as central as we have sometimes believed.

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