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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Sonata Form"”.
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Sonata Form in Beethoven's Sixth Symphony
"Charles Rosen, in his book, Sonata Forms, discusses the ways in which sonata form elevated pure instrumental music, gripping the attention of audiences “without the seductions of spectacle, the sentiments of poetry, and the emotions of drama, or even the dazzling technical virtuosity of singer and …
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Passé recomposé: Neoclassical Sonata Form in Interwar France
This dissertation offers a theory of neoclassical sonata form in interwar France. My theory is based on analysis of fifteen representative sonata-form chamber movements written during the 1920s and 30s by Ravel, Stravinsky, Poulenc, Milhaud, Honegger, Tailleferre, Auric, Durey, and Ibert. My …
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Sonata form in the six quintets, opus 11, by Johann Christian Bach
… main focus of the research concerns the use of sonata form in these pieces. All the first movements are in sonata form, which was a common practice of his time. The two slow second movements are in sonata form also. In addition, one of the slow movements is sonata form without a development …
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Deciphering the Arabesque: Genre Mixture and Formal Digression in the Early Romantic Piano Concerto
… of the arabesque to analyze genre mixture and formal digression in the early Romantic piano concerto. Drawing on both John Daverio’s adaptation of the arabesque for nineteenth-century music (1987;1993) and contemporary theories of musical form (Caplin, 1998; Hepokoski and Darcy, 2006; Vande …
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Rotational strategy in selected works by Béla Bartók
… Hepokoski and Warren Darcy regard rotational form as “an overriding structural principle, an Urprinzip that in the instrumental genres may control the progress of movements organized according to more familiar Formenlehre categories such as sonata form or rondo”, in the dissertation that …
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Compositional elements in the music of Ken Schaphorst: A detailed analysis of four works for jazz ensemble
… and thematic development, the interpretation of sonata form in big band jazz composition, the mechanics of creating extended solo features, effective groove changes that aid development, unique voicings and instrument pairing choices, and other innovative musical devices. This research aims to …
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Understanding therapeutic support for adoptive families through the golden thread of attachment theory, constructionism and creative arts therapies
… 1 presents three project outputs structured in sonata form, complemented by volume 2 containing the outputs themselves. The researcher, a music therapist and manager with a focus on attachment theory and constructionism, employs sonata form to reflect her expertise and convey her authentic …
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Franz Liszt's sonata narratives: large-scale forms at the Weimar Court
… narrative in music by analysing the large-scale, sonata-form instrumental works of Franz Liszt, composed during his tenure as <i>Hofkapellmeister im außerordentlichen Dienst</i> between the years of 1848 to 1861 at the Weimar Court Theatre. Drawing primary attention to the theoretical models of …
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Beethoven Sonata for Piano and Cello, Op. 69 in a Major: A Linear Analysis
<p>The Classical Sonata Form is not to be thought of in terms of the formal sections it can be broken into. Unlike other musical forms, the Sonata Form has less to do with its formal architecture and more to do with the linear progression and development of themes. Composers in this style did not …
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The Performer as Analyst in the Piano Sonata Opus 12 by Jean Sibelius
… models the process of analysis as a means for performers, particularly pianists, to engage with the large-scale organizational features of musical works, using the Piano Sonata, Opus 12 by Jean Sibelius as a case study. The unique character and structure of each of the three movements suggests an …
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The Significance of Dmitri Shostakovich's Piano Sonata Op.12
… forth the significance of Shostakovich's Piano Sonata Op.12. This sonata is a hybrid of the German musical tradition, Russian Modernism, and Liszt's thematic transformation technique. It demonstrates Shostakovich's highly intellectual compositional skills influenced by the education that he …
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Möbius: for Orchestra
… the development section of a piece composed in sonata form. By using the modified themes in the recapitulation rather than disregarding them entirely, the A-B-A' form of the basic sonata becomes more of an A-B-(A'+B'). Much like the mathematical function this piece is named after – a loop whose …
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The Sonata/fugue in Haydn's Sacred Choral Music
… of ways in which Haydn juxtaposed fugue and sonata--placing fugatos in various sections of the sonata, creating the sonata in different formations, and sometimes permeating the sonata with fugal texture. Significantly, all but one of the movements studied occur at the beginning or the end of …
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An Analysis of the Genesis of Motive, Rhythm, and Pitch in the First Movement of the Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion by Béla Bartók.
… that Béla Bartók created his masterwork, the Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion (1937), in a very complex period of his life. Since it was a mature piece, Bartók utilized typically "Bartókian" compositional techniques and styles. His ethnomusicological studies were also influential factors …
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Consulting students on the National College Entrance Examination (NCEE) in China
… However, one also finds striking development of formal design and tonal harmony in many of the works for his principal composition medium, the piano. This thesis seeks to explore the genesis of Liszt's magnum opus for the instrument, the Sonata in B Minor, to uncover the time-frame in which the …
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Franz Liszt's Piano Sonata in B Minor: Context, Analysis and Hermeneutics
… However, one also finds striking development of formal design and tonal harmony in many of the works for his principal composition medium, the piano. This thesis seeks to explore the genesis of Liszt’s magnum opus for the instrument, the Sonata in B Minor, to uncover the time-frame in which the …
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"Modernity's hearing loss" : Beethoven, romantic critique, and the music of the literary
… around 1800. By taking as a case study the piano sonatas Op. 31, each chapter examines from a different perspective what represents a key historical moment in the genealogy of the modern notions of musical form and experience. The underlying thesis is that instrumental music was legitimized via a …
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‘Dynamic Structure’ in the Performance of Symphonic Music: An Examination of Wilhelm Furtwängler’s Recordings
… inferred individually by analysts, performers and listeners through the media of scores and performances. Contrary to conventional definitions, it has also been shown that musicians themselves – and conductors in particular – tend to conceptualise large-scale structure dynamically, that …
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A structural, harmonic and stylistic analysis of Gabriel Fauré's Piano Quartet in C Minor Op. 15
… a structural analysis which examines the overall formal structure of the work, as well as the larger and smaller formal structures within each movement, and a harmonic analysis which examines how Faure uses certain chord structures and harmonic procedures.The main source used for the study was the …
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