10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SONATA FORM»
Discover the use of
sonata form in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
sonata form and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Two-dimensional
Sonata Form:
Form and Cycle in ...
Two-Dimensional Sonata Form is the first book dedicated to the combination of the movements of a multimovement sonata cycle with an overarching single-movement form that is itself organized as a sonata form.
Steven Vande Moortele, 2009
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Elements of
Sonata Theory : Norms, Types, and Deformations ...
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.
James Hepokoski Professor of Music Yale University, Warren Darcy Professor of Music Theory Oberlin College Conservatory, 2006
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Elements of
Sonata Theory: Norms, Types, and Deformations in ...
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.
James Arnold Hepokoski, Warren Darcy, 2011
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The Harvard Dictionary of Music
Beethoven's use of sonata form provided the model for most Romantic
composers of *absolute music, though major differences in emphasis are evident.
Romantic sonata form often gives the impression of being fundamentally a
vehicle for the ...
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Sonata Form in Ravel's Pre-war Chamber Music
Taken together, these analyses provide concrete evidence that, striving for Mozartian perfection, Ravel created works of extraordinary craftsmanship and beauty.
Sigrun B. Heinzelmann, 2008
"Nobody writes better about music .... again and again, unerring insight into just the features that make the music special and fine." The New York Review of Books"
In giving a comprehensive overview of all forms of music which were called 'sonatas' at some point in musical history, this book is more about change than about consistency - an ensemble sonata by Gabrieli appears to share little with a ...
Thomas Schmidt-Beste, 2011
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Music Theory and Natural Order from the Renaissance to the ...
SCOTT BURNHAM SONATA FORM AND US Tonality is often assumed to be the
natural modality of music, sonata form the natural expression of tonality. Why
should this be so? Why is sonata form second nature for so many of us? On the
face ...
Suzannah Clark, Alexander Rehding, 2001
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Classical
Form: A Theory of Formal Functions for the ...
In its general layout, the exposition of a sonata without development is the same
as that of the regular sonata form. Unlike the latter, however, the exposition is
never repeated, for at least two reasons. First, such a repetition would likely
arouse ...
10
Keys to the Drama: Nine Perspectives on
Sonata Forms
This book presents nine studies whose central focus is sonata form. Their diversity attests both to the manifold analytical approaches to which the form responds, and to the vast range of musical possibility within the form's exemplars.
Professor Gordon Sly, 2013
9 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SONATA FORM»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
sonata form is used in the context of the following news items.
Bournemouth SO/Karabits review – muscular, engrossing Penderecki
Certainly the music, a mostly dark and brooding sonata form in the neo-Romantic style that he adopted from the mid-1970s, has the heft and the range of a ... «The Guardian, Feb 15»
Brahms: Piano Sonata No 2; Variations Op 21 No 1; Intermezzi Op …
As well as its technical brilliance, the sense of the boundless invention of the young Brahms worrying away at the constraints of sonata form is vividly present. «The Guardian, Jan 15»
Stephen Sondheim Talks INTO THE WOODS Film; Reveals Plot …
"If you look at most plays, it's like the sonata form in music," he said. "If you screw around with that, you're taking your life in your hands." He also suggests that ... «Broadway World, Jun 14»
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Vol 2
With this second instalment of his chronological survey, covering Beethoven's development of sonata form from his early classical phase to the grander designs ... «Financial Times, Jan 14»
Yuja Wang delivers more heat than light in Boston recital debut
So it was a pleasant surprise to hear the opening bars of Chopin's Sonata No. ... seemed to respond instinctively to Chopin's freewheeling take on sonata form. «Boston Classical Review, Oct 13»
Cliburn Preliminaries: Monday, May 27, Session 1
The Mozart Sonata in A Minor, K. 310, is one of his masterpieces because of its use of form (the slow movement is in full-blown sonata form) and its economy of ... «TheaterJones Performing Arts News, May 13»
A delightful afternoon of Mendelssohn from Finckel, Wu Han and …
The first movement is a clever reworking of the sonata form with melodies not exactly stated and then shared, but melded together throughout. With the cellist ... «Boston Classical Review, Feb 12»
Taking on a Formidable and Fiendish Sonata
But Mr. Boulez's sonata undoubtedly presents fiendish challenges for both ... sonata — with which Mr. Boulez wanted to destroy the traditional sonata form ... «New York Times, Aug 11»
Chopin Week: the sonatas
Composers of Chopin's era were generally intimidated by the sonata form, because Beethoven's 32 seemed impossible to live up to. In any case, sonatas were ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Feb 10»
