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Walter Raymond Spalding on Independence Day

1865–1962 United States

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Beginning with Beethoven, however, composers began to exhibit great freedom in the application of Sonata-Form.

Music: An Art and a Language (1920)

The Development, beginning in measure 132, is a striking example of how difficult it was—even for an exponent of freedom in musical expression like Schumann—to break loose from the shackles of arbitrary form.

Music: An Art and a Language (1920)

[T]he firmness of structure inherent in the canonic form is perfectly compatible with genuine freedom and poetry of inspiration.

Music: An Art and a Language (1920)

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