In the Process of Becoming: Analytic and Philosophical Perspectives on Form in Early Nineteenth-Century MusicWith their insistence that form is a dialectical process in the music of Beethoven, Theodor Adorno and Carl Dahlhaus emerge as the guardians of a long standing critical tradition in which Hegelian concepts have been brought to bear on the question of musical form. Janet Schmalfeldt's account of this Beethoven Hegelian tradition restores to the term form some of its philosophical associations in the early nineteenth century, when profound cultural