The Oxford handbook of topic theory

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'The Oxford Handbook of Topic Theory' grounds the concept of topics in eighteenth-century music theory, aesthetics, and criticism; documents historical reality of individual topics on the basis of eighteenth-century sources, traces the origins of topical mixtures to transformations of eighteenth-century musical life, and relates topical analysis to other kinds of music analysis conducted from the perspectives of composers, performers, and listene...

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ISBN:

9780190618803

Description:

xv, 683 pages : music ; 25 cm

Notes:

Originally published in hardcover: 2014
Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Contents:

Origins and distinctions. Topics and opera buffa / Mary Hunter ; Symphonies and the public display of topics / Elaine Sisman ; Topics in chamber music / Dean Sutcliffe
Contexts, histories, sources. Music and dance in the ancien régime / Lawrence Zbikowski ; Ballroom dances of the late eighteenth century / Eric McKee ; Hunt, military, and pastoral topics / Andrew Haringer ; Turkish and hungarian-gypsy styles / Catherine Mayes ; The singing style / Sarah Day-O'Connell ; Fantasia and sensibility / Matthew Head ; Ombra and tempesta / Clive McClelland ; Learned style and learned styles / Keith Chapin ; The brilliant style / Roman Ivanovitch
Analysing topics. Topics and meter / Danuta Mirka ; Topics and harmonic schemata : a case from Beethoven / Vasili Byros ; Topics and formal functions : the case of the lament / William Caplin ; Topics and tonal processes / Joel Galand ; Topics and form in Mozart's string quintet in E flat major, K. 614/i / Kofi Agawu ; Topical figurae : the double articulation of topics / Stephen Rumph ; The troping of topics in Mozart's instrumental works / Robert Hatten
Performing topics. Performing topics in Mozart's chamber music with piano / John Irving ; Recognizing musical topics vs. executing rhetorical figures / Tom Beghin ; Eloquent performance : the pronuntiatio of topics / Sheila Guymer
Listening to topics. Amateur topical competencies / Melanie Lowe ; Expectation, musical topics, and the problem of affective differentiation / Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis ; Listening to topics in the nineteenth century / Julian Horton

LCCN:

2014003819

Control Number:

3361661

Other Authors:

Mirka, Danuta, editor

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