Journeys Through Galant Expositions
- Author: Burstein, Poundie
Burstein (Hunter College; Graduate Center, CUNY) has written a clever, idiosyncratic examination of the compositional procedures of the exposition sections of mid-18th-century sonata form movements....
Journeys Through Galant Expositions
- Author: Burstein, Poundie
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Burstein (Hunter College; Graduate Center, CUNY) has written a clever, idiosyncratic examination of the compositional procedures of the exposition sections of mid-18th-century sonata form movements....
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Ever since the nineteenth century, descriptions of musical form have tended to rely heavily on architectonic analogies. In contrast, earlier discussions more often invoked the metaphor of a journey to describe the structure of a composition. In Journeys Through Galant Expositions, author L. Poundie Burstein encourages readers to view the form of Galant music through this earlier metaphorical lens, much as those who composed, performed, improvised, and listened to music in the mid-1700s would have experienced it. By elucidating eighteenth-century ideas regarding musical form and applying them to works by a wide range of composers — including Haydn and Mozart, as well as a host of others who are often overlooked — this innovative study provides an accessible new window into the music of this time. Rather than dissecting concepts from the 1700s as a mere historical exercise or treating them as a precursor of later theories, Burstein invigorates the ideas of theorists such as Heinrich Christoph Koch and shows how they can directly impact our understanding and appreciation of Galant music as audiences and performers.
Contents
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Part I: Theories and Terminology
- Chapter 2: Formal Punctuations: Perioden and Satze
- Chapter 3: Hauptruhepuncte and Haupttheile
- Chapter 4: Eighteenth-Century Approaches to Expositions: Riepel and Koch
- Chapter 5: Other Eighteenth-Century Approaches to Expositions: Galeazzi, Kollmann, and Neubauer
- Chapter 6: Modern Terminology
- Part II: Expositions
- Chapter 7: Standard Punctuation Form
- Chapter 8: Two-Part Expositions
- Chapter 9: Division Following the Home-Key Dominant
- Chapter 10: Division Following the New-Key Dominant
- Chapter 11: Expositions with Two Half-Cadential Breaks
- Chapter 12: Division Following Arrival on Tonic
- Chapter 13: Uncommon Divisions
- Part III: The Entire Movement
- Chapter 14: The Movement's Second Half
- Chapter 15: Analyses
- Appendix
- Glossary
- Index
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Burstein (Hunter College; Graduate Center, CUNY) has written a clever, idiosyncratic examination of the compositional procedures of the exposition sections of mid-18th-century sonata form movements. Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty
