Thematic Development of Schubert's Last Piano Sonata, D. 960 (First Movement)
Thematic Development of Schubert's Last Piano Sonata, D. 960 (First Movement)

Author: Yeo

Publisher: GRIN Verlag

Published: 2010-02

Total Pages: 69

ISBN-13: 3640515714

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Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2009 in the subject Musicology - Miscellaneous, The University of Malaya, language: English, abstract: Franz Schubert' last piano sonata, D. 960 in Bb Major by was written in 1828 (published in 1839), shortly after Beethoven's death -- he died in 1827. According to Robert Winter, Beethoven was the most influential composer for Franz Schubert. Schubert's sonatas, in particular, were modeled on Beethoven's in terms of form and structure. This last sonata is one of Schubert's popular sonatas, and is often performed. It also has been frequently criticized because of the unusual aspects of its sonata form. Winter has described the last sonata as, "suffused by the composer's characteristic melancholy, mingled with a feeling of contemplative ecstasy. The stepwise elegiac opening alternates with disembodied trills in the bass, leading to remote keys, notably f# minor, before the exposition is over." This paper will discuss the following aspects of the first movement -- the form, the key schemes, and the development of themes.

Analyses of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Music, 1940-2000
Analyses of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Music, 1940-2000

Author: D. J. Hoek

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 2007-02-15

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 1461700795

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This new volume incorporates all entries from the previous editions by Arthur Wenk, expanding to cover writings drawn from periodicals, theses, dissertations, books, and Festschriften from 1940 to 2000. Over 9,000 references to analyses of works by over 1,000 composers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are included.

Schubert's Instrumental Music and Poetics of Interpretation
Schubert's Instrumental Music and Poetics of Interpretation

Author: René Rusch

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2023

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 0253067405

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Music scholarship's views of Franz Schubert's instrumental works continue to evolve. How might aesthetic values, historiographies, revisions to the composer's biography, and disciplinary commitments affect how we interpret his music? Schubert's Instrumental Music and Poetics of Interpretation explores the aesthetic positions and operations that underlie critical assessments of Schubert's instrumental works. In six chapters, each devoted to one or two of Schubert's pieces, René Rusch examines the conditions that have prompted scholarship to reevaluate the composer's music and legacy, considers how different conclusions about his music may be reflective of certain aesthetic values, investigates the role of narrative in both music analysis and constructions of history, and explores alternative forms of coherence through updated analyses of the composer's instrumental works. Rusch's observations and comparative analyses address four significant areas of scholarly focus in Schubert studies, including his approach to chromaticism, his unique musical forms, the relationship between his music and biography, and the influence of Beethoven. Drawing from a range of philosophical, hermeneutic, historical, biographical, theoretical, and analytical sources, Schubert's Instrumental Music and Poetics of Interpretation offers readers a unique and innovative foray into the poetics of contemporary analyses of Schubert's instrumental music and develops new ways to engage with his repertoire.

Heinrich Schenker
Heinrich Schenker

Author: Benjamin McKay Ayotte

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9780415940719

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First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.