Interpreting Musical Gestures, Topics, and Tropes: Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert

Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part I. Markedness, Topics, and Tropes
• 1. Semiotic Grounding in Markedness and Style: Interpreting a Style Type in the Opening of Beethoven's Ghost Trio, Op. 70, no. 1
• 2. Expressive Doubling, Topics, Tropes, and Shifts in Level of Discourse: Interpreting the Third Movement of Beethoven's String Quartet in B-flat Major, Op. 130
• 3. From Topic to Premise and Mode: The Pastoral in Schubert's Piano Sonata in G Major, D. 894
• 4. The Troping of Topics, Genres, and Forms: Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Bruckner, Mahler
• Part II. Musical Gesture
• Introduction to Part II
• 5. Foundational Principles of Human Gesture
• 6. Toward a Theory of Musical Gesture
• 7. Stylistic Types and Strategic Functions of Gestures
• 8. Thematic Gesture in Schubert: The Piano Sonatas in A Major, D. 959, and A Minor, D. 784
• 9. Thematic Gesture in Beethoven: Sonata for Piano and Cello in C Major, Op. 102, no. 1
• 10. Gestural Troping and Agency
• Conclusion to Part II
• Part III. Continuity and Discontinuity
• Introduction to Part III
• 11. From Gestural Continuity to Continuity as Premise
• 12. Discontinuity and Beyond
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index of Names and Works
• Index of Concepts