The Classical Style  33529

  1. Introduction
    1. The Musical Language of the Late Eighteenth Century[rtoc]
      • Period style and group style
      • Tonality
      • Tonic-dominant polarity
      • Equal temperament
      • Modulation
      • Weakening of linear form[/rtoc]
    2. Theories of Form[rtoc]
      • Nineteenth-century conception of sonata form
      • Twentieth-century revisions
      • Schenker
      • Motivic analysis
      • Vulgar errors[/rtoc]
    3. The Origins of the Style[rtoc]
      • Dramatic character of the classical style
      • Range of styles 1755-1775
      • Public and private music
      • Mannerist period
      • Proto-classical symmetries and patterns
      • Determinants of form[/rtoc]
  2. The Classical Style
    1. The Coherence of the Musical Language[rtoc]
      • Periodic phrase
      • Symmetry and rhythmic transition
      • Homogenous (Baroque) vs. heterogeneous (classical) rhythmic systems
      • Dynamics and ornamentation
      • Rhythmic and dynamic transition
      • Haydn Quartet op. 33 no. 3
      • Harmonic transition (modulation)
      • Decorative v. dramatic styles
      • Conventional material
      • Tonal stability and resolution
      • Recapitulation and articulation of tension
      • Reinterpretation and secondary tonalities
      • Subdominants
      • Contrast of themes
      • Reconciliation of contrasts, symmetrical resolution
      • Relation of large form to phrase, expansion technique
      • Haydn Piano Trio, H. 19
      • Correspondence of note, chord, and modulation
      • Articulation of rhythm, weight of individual beat
      • Sonata style and eccentric material: fantasy form, Mozart, Fantasy K. 475
      • Audible vs. inaudible form
      • Extra-musical influence
      • Wit in music[/rtoc]
    2. Structure and Ornament[rtoc]
      • Sonata forms generalized
      • Structure vs. ornament
      • Ornamentation in the late eighteenth century
      • Radical change in function of decoration[/rtoc]
  3. Haydn from 1770 to the Death of Mozart
    1. String Quartet
    2. Symphony
  4. Serious Opera
  5. Mozart
    1. The Concerto
    2. String Quartet
    3. Comic Opera
  6. Haydn After the Death of Mozart
    1. The Popular Style
    2. Piano Trio
    3. Church Music
  7. Beethoven
  • Epilogue

Topics covered by this book

  1. Fantasia in C minor, K. 475 (music) • p91
  2. Piano trio No. 33 in G minor, Hoboken XV:19 (music) • p83
  3. String Quartet, Op. 33 No. 3 in C major “The Bird” (music) • p65
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