Romantic Overture and Musical Form From Rossini to Wagner

The first comprehensive study of musical form in operatic and concert overtures in continental Europe between 1815 and 1850.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Making overtures; 2. Form as formula; 3. Potpourri overtures; 4. Beginning before the beginning; 5. Strong subordinate themes; 6. Open-ended expositions; 7. Recomposed recapitulations.

About the author

Steven Vande Moortele is Assistant Professor of Music Theory at the University of Toronto. His research interests include theories of musical form, the analysis of large-scale instrumental music from the late-eighteenth to the early-twentieth century, and the works of Richard Wagner and Arnold Schoenberg. He is the author of Two-Dimensional Sonata Form: Form and Cycle in Single-Movement Instrumental Works by Liszt, Strauss, Schoenberg, and Zemlinsky (2009) and co-editor of Formal Functions in Perspective: Essays on Musical Form from Haydn to Adorno (with Julie Pedneault-Deslauriers and Nathan John Martin, 2015). From 2013 to 2016, he was also co-editor of the journal Music Theory and Analysis (MTA).

Summary

This book is the first comprehensive study of musical form in the genre of the overture in continental Europe between 1815 and 1850. Combining historical and analytical perspectives, and discussing a broad range of German, French, and Italian operatic and concert overtures, it will appeal to both musicologists and music theorists.

Product details

• Authors: Steven Vande Moortele, Steven (University of Toronto) Vande Moortele
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781316615096
• ISBN: 978-1-316-61509-6
• No. of pages: 303
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Monographs; Europe, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Opera, Opera, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Theory of music & musicology, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Theory of music and musicology, Western "classical" music