books.google.com.au - The Musical Topic discusses three tropes prominently featured in Western European music: the hunt, the military, and the pastoral. Raymond Monelle provides an in-depth cultural and historical study of musical topics -- short melodic figures, harmonic or rhythmic formulae carrying literal or lexical meaning...http://books.google.com.au/books/about/The_Musical_Topic.html?id=jrF467sy4FkC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Musical Topic
