Nobody reads this book cover to cover. But I did. On the train. In Tokyo. In 1 hour increments. It took a while. And my conclusion was that this is a fascinating, fabulous book that really dives into the Sonata form and its expression among many composers. I also read the other two volumes by the same author. Sorry, this is a clone of my other review, but I had to make sure I wrote this about each of the volumes, because I read all three...