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Elements of Sonata Theory

Norms, Types, and Deformations in the Late-Eighteenth-Century Sonata

By: James Hepokoski,Warren Darcy

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Elements of Sonata Theory

Norms, Types, and Deformations in the Late-Eighteenth-Century Sonata

By: James Hepokoski,Warren Darcy

Elements of Sonata Theory is a comprehensive, richly detailed rethinking of the basic principles of sonata form in the decades around 1800. This foundational study draws upon the joint strengths of current music history and music theory to outline a new, up-to-date paradigm for understanding the compositional choices found in the instrumental works of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and their contemporaries: sonatas, chamber music, symphonies, overtures, and concertos. In so doing, it also lays out the indispensable groundwork for anyone wishing to confront the later adaptations and deformations of these basic structures in the nineteenth and earlier twentieth centuries. Combining insightful music analysis, contemporary genre theory, and provocative hermeneutic turns, the book brims over with original ideas, bold and fresh ways of awakening the potential meanings within a familiar musical repertory. Sonata Theory grasps individual compositions-and each of the individual moments within them-as creative dialogues with an implicit conceptual background of flexible, ever-changing historical norms and patterns. These norms may be recreated as constellations "compositional defaults," any of which, however, may be stretched, strained, or overridden altogether for individualized structural or expressive purposes. This book maps out the terrain of that conceptual background, against which what actually happens-or does not happen-in any given piece may be assessed and measured. The Elements guides the reader through the standard (and less-than-standard) formatting possibilities within each compositional space in sonata form, while also emphasizing the fundamental role played by processes of large-scale circularity, or "rotation," in the crucially important ordering of musical modules over an entire movement. The book also illuminates new ways of understanding codas and introductions, of confronting the generating processes of minor-mode sonatas, and of grasping the arcs of multimovement cycles as wholes. Its final chapters provide individual studies of alternative sonata types, including "binary" sonata structures, sonata-rondos, and the "first-movement form" of Mozart's concertos.

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Oxford University Press

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0199890234

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9780199890231

Ten Hispano-Arabic Strophic Songs in the Modern Oral Tradition

Music and Texts

By: Benjamin M. Liu,Liu M. Benjamin,James T. Monroe

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Ten Hispano-Arabic Strophic Songs in the Modern Oral Tradition

Music and Texts

By: Benjamin M. Liu,Liu M. Benjamin,James T. Monroe

This work explores the literary and musical connections between Hispano-Arabic strophic songs of the muwashshaha-zajal genre, and their medieval Romance cognates, the ballata, cantiga, dansa, rondeau, villancico, and virelai. The authors begin with a general essay based on recent scholarship in Arabic, Romance, and ethnomusicological studies and then present a translation of Al-Tifashi's key 13th-century Arabic treatise on the musical tradition of Arab Spain. The appendices provide texts and translations of ten poems that modern scholarship attributes to or authenticates as part of the Hispano-Arabic song repertory, and musical notations of these texts as sung in Arab countries today. The authors suggest that the living tradition of Andalusian music surviving in the Arab world preserves a priceless echo, be it ever so distorted, of the lost tradition of Hispano-Arabic songs. They conclude that this tradition was a subtle blending of imported Oriental elements combined with others native to the Romance-singing Iberian Peninsula.

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114

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Univ of California Press

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0520097513

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9780520097513

Sauces

Classical and Contemporary Sauce Making

By: James Peterson

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Sauces

Classical and Contemporary Sauce Making

By: James Peterson

The fourth edition of the classic reference, with updated information and recipes reflecting contemporary trends and methods--plus, for the first time, color photography throughout.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0544819829

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9780544819825

Jean-Baptiste Lully and the Music of the French Baroque

Essays in Honor of James R. Anthony

By: James R. Anthony

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Jean-Baptiste Lully and the Music of the French Baroque

Essays in Honor of James R. Anthony

By: James R. Anthony

This volume of essays on Jean-Baptiste Lully and his musical legacy honours the distinguished French baroque scholar James R. Anthony. Jean-Baptiste Lully, court composer to Louis XIV, served as the principal architect of what would become known as the French style of music in the baroque era. The style he created strongly influenced the great musical figures in England (Purcell and Handel) and Germany (Bach and Telemann), but Lully's music itself has received little attention. Recently, through the efforts of scholars and musicians concerned with the performance practices of Lully's time, Lully's own music has begun to come alive in performance and recording. These essays, all by important baroque specialists, cover significant aspects of Lully's life and works and the French tradition he influenced. They constitute the first post-war collection of studies centred on Lully and form a fitting tribute to Professor Anthony whose own French baroque music provided a stimulus for the work of an emerging generation of scholars.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521352630

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9780521352635

Music for the Piano

A Handbook of Concert and Teaching Material from 1580 to 1952

By: James Friskin,Irwin Freundlich

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Music for the Piano

A Handbook of Concert and Teaching Material from 1580 to 1952

By: James Friskin,Irwin Freundlich

First published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston in 1954.

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Courier Corporation

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0486229181

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9780486229188

Catalogue of Music for Organ and Instruments

By: James Laster

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Catalogue of Music for Organ and Instruments

By: James Laster

This book presents music titles in which the organ is part of a chamber ensemble. Alphabetized by composer, entries contain the bibliographical information for each title and a brief commentary or description, as well as information on the level of difficulty, timing, mood, fingerings/pedalings, and other performance aids. The selections are suitable for concerts and religious services and are written in a variety of styles, from Baroque to contemporary." "This catalogue will be of interest to church organists searching for a piece for organ and brass appropriate for Easter, visiting instrumentalists choosing music for a Sunday service, teachers introducing their organ students to the experience of accompanying a violin, and instrumentalists seeking a composition to play with the organ, among many others."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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Scarecrow Press

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0810852993

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9780810852990

Music, Structure, Thought: Selected Essays

By: James Hepokoski

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Music, Structure, Thought: Selected Essays

By: James Hepokoski

Among the most original and provocative musicological writers of his generation, James Hepokoski has elaborated new paradigms of inquiry for both music history and music theory. Advocating fundamental shifts of methodological reorientation within the quest for potential musical meanings, his work spans both disciplines and offers substantial challenges for each. At its core is the conviction that a close study of musical genres, procedures, and structures those qualities of a composition that are specifically musical is essential to any responsible hermeneutic enterprise. Selected from writings from 1984 to 2008, this collection of essays provides a generous introduction to the author‘s most innovative and influential work on a wide variety of topics: musicological methodology, issues of staging and performance, Italian opera, program music, and exemplary studies of individual pieces.

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Routledge

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1351556991

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Elements of Sonata Theory

Elements of Sonata Theory

Ten Hispano-Arabic Strophic Songs in the Modern Oral Tradition

Ten Hispano-Arabic Strophic Songs in the Modern Oral Tradition

Sauces

Sauces

Jean-Baptiste Lully and the Music of the French Baroque

Jean-Baptiste Lully and the Music of the French Baroque

Music for the Piano

Music for the Piano

Catalogue of Music for Organ and Instruments

Catalogue of Music for Organ and Instruments

Music, Structure, Thought: Selected Essays

Music, Structure, Thought: Selected Essays

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