Sonata Fragments : Romantic Narratives in Chopin, Schumann, and Brahms /

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In Sonata Fragments, Andrew Davis argues that the Romantic sonata is firmly rooted, both formally and expressively, in its Classical forebears, using Classical conventions in order to convey a broad constellation of Romantic aesthetic values. This claim runs contrary to conventional theories of the...

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Main Author: Davis, Andrew C., 1973- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2017]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Schumann, Robert, > 1810-1856.
Chopin, Frederic, > 1810-1849.
Brahms, Johannes, > 1833-1897.
Brahms, Johannes, > 1833-1897 > Criticism and interpretation.
Schumann, Robert, > 1810-1856 > Criticism and interpretation.
Chopin, Frederic, > 1810-1849 > Criticism and interpretation.
Sonata.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Classical.
MUSIC > Printed Music > Percussion.
MUSIC > Musical Instruments > Piano & Keyboard.
Sonate > 19e siecle.
Sonata > 19th century.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: romantic musical discourse, or, a rhetoric of romantic music
  • Fragmentation and atemporality
  • Fragmentation: aesthetics of nineteenth-century romanticism
  • Atemporality in narrative and music
  • Structural and rhetorical strategies in music with and without text
  • Music with text: two slow movements by Brahms
  • Music without text: forms of atemporality
  • Brahms's piano sonatas
  • Treatment of the medial caesura
  • Treatment of the s-space
  • Treatment of the development and recapitulation
  • Treatment of the slow introduction and coda.

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