From Silence to Sound: Beethoven's Beginnings

JEREMY YUDKIN is Professor of Music and Co-Director of the Center for Beethoven Research at Boston University.

Foreword by Lewis Lockwood
Preface
Chapter One: Begin at the Beginning
Chapter Two: Conventions of Beginning
Chapter Three: Unconventional Beginnings
Chapter Four: Beginning as Structural Unit
Chapter Five: Special Beginnings
Chapter Six: Beginning as Public Statement
Chapter Seven: Fighting for Perfection
Chapter Eight: Conclusions
Appendix 1: Key Distribution in the Principal Works of Beethoven
Appendix 2: Compositions Cited
Bibliography