基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2006. Provides a comprehensive and in-depth examination of the sonata genre.
Full Description
Elements of Sonata Theory outlines a fresh approach to analysing the sonata. Both building on and departing from earlier methods of analysis, this study provides a comprehensive and in-depth examination of the sonata genre. After establishing the normative features of the sonata, the authors examine how individual sonatas from Beethoven, Haydn, and Mozart both adhere to and deviate from those standards to a variety of effects. Co-authored by a music theorist and a musicologist, this book both provides a groundbreaking foundational theory and offers fresh insights on individual works from the Western canon.
Contents
1. Contexts
2. Sonata Form as a Whole: Foundational Considerations
3. The Medial Caesura and the Two-Part Exposition
4. The Continuous Exposition
5. The Primary Theme
6. The Transition (TR)
7. The Secondary Theme (S) and Essential Expositional Closure: Initial Considerations
8. S-Complications: EEC Deferral and Apparent Double Medial Caesuras (TMB)
9. The Closing Zone (C)
10. The Development (Developmental Space)
11. The Recapitulation (Recapitulatory Space; Recapitulatory Rotation)
12. Non-Normative Openings of the Recapitulatory Rotation: Alternatives and Deformations
13. Parageneric Spaces: Coda and Introduction
14. Sonata Form in Minor Keys
15. The Three- and Four-Movement Sonata Cycle
16. Sonata Types and the Type 1 Sonata
17. The Type 2 Sonata
18. Rondos and the Type 4 Sonata
19. The Type 5 Sonata: Fundamentals
20. The Type 5 Sonata: Mozart's Concertos (R1: The Opening Ritornello)
21. The Type 5 Sonata: Mozart's Concertos (Solo and Larger Expositions: Solo 1 + Ritornello 2)
22. The Type 5 Sonata: Mozart's Concertos (Development and Recapitulation: From Solo 2 through Ritornello 4)
Appendix 1. Some Grounding Principles of Sonata Theory
Appendix 2. Terminology: "Rotation" and "Deformation"
