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Hypermetric Manipulations in Haydn and Mozart - Chamber Music for Strings, 1787 - 1791 (Hardcover)
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Hypermetric Manipulations in Haydn and Mozart - Chamber Music for Strings, 1787 - 1791 (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Music Theory
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For the past four decades, the concept of hypermeter has been
routinely applied to eighteenth-century music. But was this concept
familiar in the eighteenth century? If so, how is it reflected in
writings of eighteenth-century music theorists? And how does it
relate to their discussion of phrase structure? In this book, a
follow-up to the award-winning Metric Manipulations in Haydn and
Mozart, author Danuta Mirka unearthes a number of cues that point
to eighteenth-century recognition of what today is called
hypermeter, and retraces the line of tradition that led from
eighteenth-century music theory to the emergence of the modern
concept of hypermeter in the twentieth century. Mirka describes the
proto-theory of hypermeter developed by German music theorists,
recounts the recent history of this concept in American music
theory, evaluates contributions made to it by authors working
within different theoretical traditions, and introduces a dynamic
model of hypermeter which allows the analyst to trace the effect of
hypermetric manipulations in real time. This model is applied in
analyses of Haydn's and Mozart's chamber music for strings, which
shed a new light upon this celebrated repertoire, but the aim of
this book goes far beyond an analytical survey of specific
compositions. Rather, it is to offer a systematic classification of
hypermetrical irregularities in relation to phrase structure and to
give a comprehensive account of the ways in which phrase structure
and hypermeter were described by eighteenth-century music
theorists, conceived by eighteenth-century composers, and perceived
by eighteenth-century listeners.
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