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The Oxford Handbook of Topic Theory (Hardcover)
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The Oxford Handbook of Topic Theory (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Handbooks
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Topics are musical signs developed and employed primarily during
the long eighteenth century. Their significance relies on
associations that are clearly recognizable to the listener with
different genres, styles and types of music making. Topic theory,
which is used to explain conventional subjects of musical
composition in this period, is grounded in eighteenth-century music
theory, aesthetics, and criticism, while drawing also from music
cognition and semiotics. The concept of topics was introduced into
by Leonard Ratner in the 1980s to account for cross-references
between eighteenth-century styles and genres. As the invention of a
twentieth-century academic, topic theory as a field is
comparatively new, and The Oxford Handbook of Topic Theory provides
a much-needed reconstruction of the field's aesthetic
underpinnings.
The volume grounds the concept of topics in eighteenth-century
music theory, aesthetics, and criticism. Documenting the historical
reality of individual topics on the basis of eighteenth-century
sources, it traces the origins of topical mixtures to
transformations of eighteenth-century musical life, and relates
topical analysis to other methods of music analysis conducted from
the perspectives of composers, performers, and listeners. Focusing
its scope on eighteenth-century musical repertoire, The Oxford
Handbook of Topic Theory lays the foundation for further
investigation of topics in music of the nineteenth, twentieth, and
twenty-first centuries.
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