A sonata theory handbook / James Hepokoski.

"A Sonata Theory Handbook is a step-by-step, seminar-like introduction to Sonata Theory, a new approach to the study and interpretation of sonata form. The book updates and advances the outline of the method first presented in Hepokoski and Darcy's 2006 Elements of Sonata Theory. It blends...

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Main Author: Hepokoski, James A. (James Arnold), 1946- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]
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Summary:"A Sonata Theory Handbook is a step-by-step, seminar-like introduction to Sonata Theory, a new approach to the study and interpretation of sonata form. The book updates and advances the outline of the method first presented in Hepokoski and Darcy's 2006 Elements of Sonata Theory. It blends explanations of the theory's general principles-dialogic form, expositional action zones, trajectories toward generically normative cadences, rotation theory, the five sonata types, the special case of the minor-mode sonata, and more-with illustrations of them in practice through close, extended analyses of eight individual movements by Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert, and Brahms. Central to the method is the merging of historically informed, technical analysis with the concerns of hermeneutic interpretation. The book features an inclusive engagement with recent developments in form theory, schema theory, and other related studies since 2006, including some of the language and insights of cognitive research into music perception and the more generalized concerns of conceptual metaphor theory. It ultimately builds to reflections on sonata form in the romantic era: the flexible applicability of Sonata Theory to mid- and late-nineteenth-century works"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiv, 332 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780197536841
0197536840
9780197536834
0197536832
9780197536858
0197536859
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 02, 2020).