The Oxford Handbook of Topic Theory

Buch | Softcover

712 Seiten

2016
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-061880-3 (ISBN)

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The concept of musical topics describes the aural cross-references between styles and genres. The Oxford Handbook of Topic Theory grounds this concept in eighteenth-century music theory, aesthetics, and criticism, while also documenting historical reality of individual topics.

Topics are musical signs developed and employed primarily during the long eighteenth century. Their significance relies on associations that are clearly recognizable to the listener with different genres, styles and types of music making. Topic theory, which is used to explain conventional subjects of musical composition in this period, is grounded in eighteenth-century music theory, aesthetics, and criticism, while drawing also from music cognition and semiotics. The concept of topics was introduced into by Leonard Ratner in the 1980s to account for cross-references between eighteenth-century styles and genres. As the invention of a twentieth-century academic, topic theory as a field is comparatively new, and The Oxford Handbook of Topic Theory provides a much-needed reconstruction of the field's aesthetic underpinnings.

The volume grounds the concept of topics in eighteenth-century music theory, aesthetics, and criticism. Documenting the historical reality of individual topics on the basis of eighteenth-century sources, it traces the origins of topical mixtures to transformations of eighteenth-century musical life, and relates topical analysis to other methods of music analysis conducted from the perspectives of composers, performers, and listeners. Focusing its scope on eighteenth-century musical repertoire, The Oxford Handbook of Topic Theory lays the foundation for further investigation of topics in music of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries.

Danuta Mirka is Reader in Music at the University of Southampton. She is the co-editor, with Kofi Agawu, of Communication in Eighteenth-Century Music. Her books include The Sonoristic Structuralism of Krzysztof Penderecki and Metric Manipulations in Haydn and Mozart: Chamber Music for Strings, 1787-1791, which won the 2011 Wallace Berry Award from the Society for Music Theory.

Introduction
Danuta Mirka

Section I. Origins and Distinctions
Chapter 1. Topics and Opera Buffa
Mary Hunter
Chapter 2. Symphonies and the Public Display of Topics
Elaine Sisman
Chapter 3. Topics in Chamber Music
Dean Sutcliffe

Section II. Contexts, Histories, Sources
Chapter 4. Music and Dance in the Ancien Régime
Lawrence Zbikowski
Chapter 5. Ballroom Dances of the Late Eighteenth Century
Eric McKee
Chapter 6. Hunt, Military, and Pastoral Topics
Andrew Haringer
Chapter 7. Turkish and Hungarian-Gypsy Styles
Catherine Mayes
Chapter 8. The Singing Style
Sarah Day-O'Connell
Chapter 9. Fantasia and Sensibility
Matthew Head
Chapter 10. Ombra and Tempesta
Clive McClelland
Chapter 11. Learned Style and Learned Styles
Keith Chapin
Chapter 12. The Brilliant Style
Roman Ivanovitch

Section III. Analysing Topics
Chapter 13. Topics and Meter
Danuta Mirka
Chapter 14. Topics and Harmonic Schemata: A Case from Beethoven
Vasili Byros
Chapter 15. Topics and Formal Functions: The Case of the Lament
William Caplin
Chapter 16. Topics and Tonal Processes
Joel Galand
Chapter 17. Topics and Form in Mozart's String Quintet in E flat major, K. 614/i
Kofi Agawu
Chapter 18. Topical Figurae: The Double Articulation of Topics
Stephen Rumph
Chapter 19. The Troping of Topics in Mozart's Instrumental Works
Robert Hatten

Section IV. Performing Topics
Chapter 20. Performing Topics in Mozart's Chamber Music with Piano
John Irving
Chapter 21. Recognizing Musical Topics vs. Executing Rhetorical Figures
Tom Beghin
Chapter 22. Eloquent Performance: The Pronuntiatio of Topics
Sheila Guymer

Section V. Listening to Topics
Chapter 23. Amateur Topical Competencies
Melanie Lowe
Chapter 24. Expectation, Musical Topics, and the Problem of Affective Differentiation
Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis
Chapter 25. Listening to Topics in the Nineteenth Century
Julian Horton

Erscheinungsdatum	25.05.2016
Reihe/Serie	Oxford Handbooks
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 231 mm
Gewicht	408 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
ISBN-10	0-19-061880-9 / 0190618809
ISBN-13	978-0-19-061880-3 / 9780190618803
Zustand	Neuware