Without doubt some of the most nortorious outlaws have been composers.  Do not think that because the subject is music (as opposed to war) that these men did less radical violence than our men readying to take Herfleur.  Out of sudden inspiration, or radical disregard for convention, new forms and complex law arose that eventually became tradition.
  John Sebastian Bach The Baroque
The Period and Composers

"Baroque" is French meaning an  irregularly shaped pearl and its ideal expression in music is associated with Bach who perfected the art of polyphony.  The Sonata, a group of slow and fast dance movements, also owes its existence to this period.

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  Wolfgang Mozart 		        Birth of the Classical
       Bach's Influence on Mozart

Note that whereas Bach composed always in the mode of an offering to the Divine, Mozart's music may be considered more secular, certainly more earthy.  He is responsible for extending the fugue to incorporate the sonata.  In some respects Mozart achieved the perfect reconciliation between Bach's extraordinary form and Beethoven's energy.
Ludwig Van Beethoven     The Birth of the Romantic Period
Beethoven knew Mozart.  His compositions are passionate and dynamic.  He widened the scope of the piano sonata to symphonic proportion and introduced sudden fortissimo chords that shattered through a piece.  His work is emotional and sensual.
Law Review Articles That Explore What Music Theory
May (or May Not) Tell Us About Legal Interpretation and/or the Nature of Law.
Wayne Alpern, Music Theory as a Mode of Law, 20 Cardoza L. Rev. 1459 (1999)

Desmond Manderson, Statuta v. Acts: Interpretation, Music, and Early EnglishLegislation, 7 Yale J. L. & Hum. 317 (1995)

David Luben, The Posner Variations (twenty-seven variations on a Theme by Holmes), 48 Stan, L. Rev. 1001 (1996) (review of Richard Posner's Overcoming Law).

Richard Posner, Bork And Beethoven, 42 Stan. L. Rev. 1365 (1990) (On Theories of Orginal Intent and Original Performance Movement).

Stanford Levinson & J.M. Balkin, Law, Music, And Other Performance Arts 139 Univ. Pa. L. Rev. 1597 (1991)


     Glossary of Music's Law

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