Analyzing Schubert Investigating the reception of Schubert's most daring harmonies, this book uses Schubert's harmonic practice to critique canonical music theories. Suzannah Clark (Author) 9781316620755, Cambridge University Press Paperback / softback, published 1 September 2016 302 pages, 1 b/w illus. 1 table 87 music examples24.6 x 17.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.53 kg "Analyzing Schubert certainly is controversial, particularly in Clark's critiques of well established theories, but it is sure to provoke further discussion on music theory's role in understanding music." --Music Research Forum (Volume 27,2012) When Schubert's contemporary reviewers first heard his modulations, they famously claimed that they were excessive, odd and unplanned. This book argues that these claims have haunted the analysis of Schubert's harmony ever since, outlining why Schubert's music occupies a curiously marginal position in the history of music theory. Analyzing Schubert traces how critics, analysts and historians from the early nineteenth century to the present day have preserved cherished narratives of wandering, alienation, memory and trance by emphasizing the mystical rather than the logical quality of the composer's harmony. This study proposes a new method for analyzing the harmony of Schubert's works. Rather than pursuing an approach that casts Schubert's famous harmonic moves as digressions from the norms of canonical theoretical paradigms, Suzannah Clark explores how the harmonic fingerprints in Schubert's songs and instrumental sonata forms challenge pedigreed habits of thought about what constitutes a theory of tonal and formal order. Introduction 1. Singing Schubert's praises: the voice of Vogl in Schubert's early history 2. 'A word will often do it': harmonic adventure in Schubert's songs 3. Music theory and the musicological imagination: perceptions of Schubert's sonata form 4. Analyzing music theory: a Schubertian critique Epilogue Bibliography. Subject Areas: Romantic music [c 1830 to c 1900 AVGC5], Theory of music & musicology [AVA]
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