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How Sonata Forms proposes a new bottom-up conceptualization of the history of the sonata as an aggregation of distinct elements found throughout the eighteenth century.
List of contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: The Fuzziness of Form
- Chapter 2: Wholes in the Theory
- Chapter 3: From Selfish Sonatas to Egoistic Elements
- Chapter 4: A Periodic Table of Elements
- Chapter 5: On Positive Interaction and the Emergence of the Recapitulation
- Chapter 6: Rival Repeats: On Negative Interaction and Form in Flux
- Chapter 7: Converging Forms
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index
About the author
Yoel Greenberg is a music theorist, musicologist and violist, currently serving as head of the department of music at Bar-Ilan University and violist with the Carmel Quartet. He holds a first degree in mathematics and computer science, and an MA and PhD in musicology from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. His research concerns the rise of sonata form using corpus-based methods to inform analysis of individual works. He has also published articles about music and the arts in the early twentieth century, and Jewish music. Greenberg is dedicated to public musical education and presents, together with the Carmel Quartet, the critically acclaimed series of concert-lectures, Strings and More.
Summary
How Sonata Forms proposes a new bottom-up conceptualization of the history of the sonata as an aggregation of distinct elements found throughout the eighteenth century.
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How Sonata Forms offer a robust picture of sonata-form composition in the mid-eighteenth century, introducing the reader to a great deal of new repertoire from complementary perspectives.
