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Elements of Sonata Theory
Hepokoski, James; Darcy, Warren
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Description for Elements of Sonata Theory
Paperback. Elements of Sonata Theory is a comprehensive rethinking of the basic principles of sonata form in the decades around 1800. This foundational study outlines a new, up-to-date paradigm for understanding the compositional choices found in the instrumental works of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven: sonatas, chamber music, symphonies, overtures, and concertos. Num Pages: 692 pages, 88 music examples, 9 line illus. BIC Classification: 3JF; AVA; AVGC4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 252 x 179 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1252.
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. ... Read more
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. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
692
Condition
New
Number of Pages
692
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199773916
SKU
V9780199773916
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About Hepokoski, James; Darcy, Warren
James Hepokoski is Professor of Music at Yale University. His research interests include nineteenth- and twentieth-century music, musical form, hermeneutics, and historiography. Warren Darcy is Professor of Music Theory at Oberlin College Conservatory. His book Wagner's Das Rheingold (Oxford, 1993) won the Society for Music Theory's Wallace Berry Award in 1995.
Reviews for Elements of Sonata Theory
will surely be valued for its encyclopedic compilation of interesting music analytical observations on a wealth of sonata excerpts
Celia Hurwitz-Keefe, Eighteenth-Century Music
Celia Hurwitz-Keefe, Eighteenth-Century Music