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Elements of Sonata Theory - Norms, Types, and Deformations in the Late-Eighteenth-Century Sonata (Paperback)
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Elements of Sonata Theory - Norms, Types, and Deformations in the Late-Eighteenth-Century Sonata (Paperback)
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Elements of Sonata Theory is a comprehensive, richly detailed
rethinking of the basic principles of sonata form in the decades
around 1800. This foundational study draws upon the joint strengths
of current music history and music theory to outline a new,
up-to-date paradigm for understanding the compositional choices
found in the instrumental works of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and
their contemporaries: sonatas, chamber music, symphonies,
overtures, and concertos. In so doing, it also lays out the
indispensable groundwork for anyone wishing to confront the later
adaptations and deformations of these basic structures in the
nineteenth and earlier twentieth centuries.
Combining insightful music analysis, contemporary genre theory,
and provocative hermeneutic turns, the book brims over with
original ideas, bold and fresh ways of awakening the potential
meanings within a familiar musical repertory. Sonata Theory grasps
individual compositions-and each of the individual moments within
them-as creative dialogues with an implicit conceptual background
of flexible, ever-changing historical norms and patterns. These
norms may be recreated as constellations "compositional defaults,"
any of which, however, may be stretched, strained, or overridden
altogether for individualized structural or expressive purposes.
This book maps out the terrain of that conceptual background,
against which what actually happens-or does not happen-in any given
piece may be assessed and measured.
The Elements guides the reader through the standard (and
less-than-standard) formatting possibilities within each
compositional space in sonata form, while also emphasizing the
fundamental role played by processes of large-scale circularity, or
"rotation," in the crucially important ordering of musical modules
over an entire movement. The book also illuminates new ways of
understanding codas and introductions, of confronting the
generating processes of minor-mode sonatas, and of grasping the
arcs of multimovement cycles as wholes. Its final chapters provide
individual studies of alternative sonata types, including "binary"
sonata structures, sonata-rondos, and the "first-movement form" of
Mozart's concertos.
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