Beethoven Egmont Argumentative Essay

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Caplin et al point out that Beethoven’s Egmont is not an “illustrative sonata according to most of our now-standardized textbook descriptions” and that it “contravenes tonal-definitional sonata principles.” In other words, Egmont is “set into a dialogue with sonata-form norms even though it does not realize all of them in standard ways.”

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