Analyzing Schubert
Suzannah Clark
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When Schubert's contemporary reviewers first heard his modulations, they famously claimed that they were excessive, odd and unplanned. This book argues that these claims have haunted the analysis of Schubert's harmony ever since, outlining why Schubert's music occupies a curiously marginal position in the history of music theory. Analyzing Schubert traces how critics, analysts and historians from the early nineteenth century to the present day have preserved cherished narratives of wandering, alienation, memory and trance by emphasizing the mystical rather than the logical quality of the composer's harmony. This study proposes a new method for analyzing the harmony of Schubert's ... Read more
When Schubert's contemporary reviewers first heard his modulations, they famously claimed that they were excessive, odd and unplanned. This book argues that these claims have haunted the analysis of Schubert's harmony ever since, outlining why Schubert's music occupies a curiously marginal position in the history of music theory. Analyzing Schubert traces how critics, analysts and historians from the early nineteenth century to the present day have preserved cherished narratives of wandering, alienation, memory and trance by emphasizing the mystical rather than the logical quality of the composer's harmony. This study proposes a new method for analyzing the harmony of Schubert's ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
302
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781316620755
SKU
V9781316620755
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About Suzannah Clark
Suzannah Clark is Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of Music at Harvard University, Massachusetts. In addition to her work on Schubert, her research interests range from medieval French motets to the history of music theory from Rameau to Schenker. She is the co-editor of Citation and Authority in Medieval and Renaissance Musical Culture: Learning from the Learned, with Elizabeth Eva Leach, ... Read more
Reviews for Analyzing Schubert
"The result is a book that not only offers new ways of understanding Schubert's music but critiques music theory itself, inviting further questioning of long-accepted assumptions. This work is a fascinating challenge..."
Choice "Recommended for all lovers of Schubert for sure; but also to anyone with more than a passing interest in the development of harmony ... Read more
Choice "Recommended for all lovers of Schubert for sure; but also to anyone with more than a passing interest in the development of harmony ... Read more