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David Damschroder, Harmony in Schubert (Cambridge Cambridge University Press, 2010). xii+321. $99.00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 May 2012

Suzannah Clark
Suzannah Clark*
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Nineteenth-Century Music Review , Volume 9 , Issue 1: Theoretical and Critical Contexts in Nineteenth-Century Performance Practice , June 2012 , pp. 101 - 106
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