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How Sonata Forms - A Bottom-Up Approach to Musical Form (Hardcover)
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How Sonata Forms - A Bottom-Up Approach to Musical Form (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Music Theory
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Traditional approaches to musical form have always adopted a
top-down perspective whereby a work's form organizes and unifies
the individual parts of the work through an overarching logic. How
Sonata Forms turns this view on its head, proposing instead that it
was the parts that conditioned and enabled the whole. Relying on a
corpus of over a thousand works, author Yoel Greenberg illustrates
how the elements of sonata form arose independently of one another,
with an overarching idea of form only emerging at the tail end of
its formative period during the eighteenth century. Appreciation of
the bottom-up nature of sonata form's evolution reveals it not as a
stable package of features that all serve a common aesthetic or
formal goal, but rather as an unstable collection of disparate and
sometimes even contradictory common practices. The resolution of
these contradictions presents a challenge to composers, rendering
form a creative catalyst in itself, rather than as a compositional
convenience. More generally, the deeply diachronic perspective of
How Sonata Forms offers an alternative to the traditional
synchronic outlook that pervades music theory in general and the
study of form in particular. Rather than focus on definitions and
taxonomies, How Sonata Forms proposes a focus on the motion of the
system of form as a whole, suggesting that it is often more
productive to appreciate the dynamics of a system than it is to
rigorously define its parts.
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