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Formal Functions in Perspective
Essays on Musical Form from Haydn to Adorno
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Edited by:
Steven Vande Moortele
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With contributions by:
Andrew Deruchie
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English
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2015
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Presents thirteen studies that engage with the notion of formal function in a variety of ways
Among the more striking developments in contemporary North American music theory is the renewed centrality of issues of musical form (Formenlehre). Formal Functions in Perspective presents thirteen studies that engage with musical form in a variety of ways. The essays, written by established and emerging scholars from the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the European continent, run the chronological gamut from Haydn and Clementito Leibowitz and Adorno; they discuss Lieder, arias, and choral music as well as symphonies, concerti, and chamber works; they treat Haydn's humor and Saint-Saëns's politics, while discussions of particular pieces range from Mozart's arias to Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht. Running through the essays and connecting them thematically is the central notion of formal function.
CONTRIBUTORS: Brian Black, L. Poundie Burstein, Andrew Deruchie, Julian Horton, Steven Huebner, Harald Krebs, Henry Klumpenhouwer, Nathan John Martin, François de Médicis, Christoph Neidhöfer, Julie Pedneault-Deslauriers, Giorgio Sanguinetti, Janet Schmalfeldt, Peter Schubert, Steven Vande Moortele
Steven Vande Moortele is assistant professor of music theory at the University of Toronto. Julie Pedneault-Deslauriers is assistant professor of music at the University of Ottawa. Nathan John Martin is assistant professor of music at the University of Michigan.
Among the more striking developments in contemporary North American music theory is the renewed centrality of issues of musical form (Formenlehre). Formal Functions in Perspective presents thirteen studies that engage with musical form in a variety of ways. The essays, written by established and emerging scholars from the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the European continent, run the chronological gamut from Haydn and Clementito Leibowitz and Adorno; they discuss Lieder, arias, and choral music as well as symphonies, concerti, and chamber works; they treat Haydn's humor and Saint-Saëns's politics, while discussions of particular pieces range from Mozart's arias to Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht. Running through the essays and connecting them thematically is the central notion of formal function.
CONTRIBUTORS: Brian Black, L. Poundie Burstein, Andrew Deruchie, Julian Horton, Steven Huebner, Harald Krebs, Henry Klumpenhouwer, Nathan John Martin, François de Médicis, Christoph Neidhöfer, Julie Pedneault-Deslauriers, Giorgio Sanguinetti, Janet Schmalfeldt, Peter Schubert, Steven Vande Moortele
Steven Vande Moortele is assistant professor of music theory at the University of Toronto. Julie Pedneault-Deslauriers is assistant professor of music at the University of Ottawa. Nathan John Martin is assistant professor of music at the University of Michigan.
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Contributor: Steven Huebner
STEVEN HUEBNER is the James McGill Professor (musicology) at the Schulich School of Music, McGill University, Quebec, Canada.
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
1 - Part One. Theoretical Studies in Haydn and Mozart
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Chapter One “Functial Formanality” Twisted Formal Functions in Joseph Haydn’s Symphonies
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Chapter Two. Mozart’s Sonata-Form Arias
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Chapter Three. Formal Type and Formal Function in the Postclassical Piano Concerto
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Chapter Four. Saint-Saëns’s Cyclic Forms
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Chapter Five Schubert’s “Defl ected-Cadence” Transitions and the Classical Style
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Chapter Six “Heavenly Length” in Schubert’s Instrumental Music
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Chapter Seven. Sentences in the Lieder of Robert Schumann: The Relation to the Text
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Chapter Eight. Parlante Talk: Texture and Formal Function in the Operas of Verdi
252 - Part Five. Analysis and Hermeneutics
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Chapter Nine. Discipline and Punish among the Winds in the First Movement of Beethoven’s First Symphony
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Chapter Ten. Laborious Homecomings: The “Ongoing Reprise” from Clementi to Brahms
317 - Part Six. Schoenberg and Beyond
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Chapter Eleven. Dominant Tunnels, Form, and Program in Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht
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Chapter Twelve. Form and Serial Function in Leibowitz’s Trois poèmes de Pierre Reverdy
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Chapter Thirteen. The Philosopher as Theorist: Adorno’s materiale Formenlehre
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Afterword
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Contributors
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Index
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February 28, 2024
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9781782045977
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University of Rochester Press
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Keywords for this book
Formal Functions; Musical Form; Haydn; Adorno; Music Theory; Contemporary Music; Essays; Formal Analysis
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For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
