Presents case studies in musical composition, with chapters in sections on dialectics of form in 19th-century music, Mozart, Beethoven studies, and cyclical from. Specific subjects include image and imagination in Schumann's G minor sonata, inversional symmetry in The Magic Flute , pitch interpretation and cyclical procedures in middle-period Beethoven, and explorations of time and structure in Schubert's Winterreise . Author information is not given. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)