The Forms of Music Author:Sir Donald Tovey Sir Donald Tovey was perhaps the most literate and profound of modern interpreters of music—its theory and history. The essays which form the present volume are all drawn from those articles on music which Tovey prepared for the Encyclopedia Britannica. — To many listeners, even some who are passionate followers of classical music, the subtle shi... more »ft of forms and principles of composition which describe the difference between, for example, the cantata, the chorale, and the oratorio, are not easily understood. It is Tovey's intention in The Forms of Music to make such distinctions intelligble. There are in all twenty-eight articles on different kinds and elements of music-—aria, chamber music, concerto, harmony, mass, melody, opera, programme music, sonata, symphony, and others.« less