Analytical Variations - Eight Critical Essays on Applied Music Theory

by Bengt Edlund, Nico Schüler (Editor)

Overview

This book gives a critical account of various methods used in music analysis. In the first chapter, a number of current approaches such as semiotics, musical implications, Schenkerian analysis, and generative theory are demonstrated on Mozart’s K. 331 theme. Five essays deal with important concepts in music analysis: ambiguity, formal proportions, and similarity within and between works. A further chapter provides a discussion of probability, kinship, and influence – decisive criteria when judging musical plagiarism. The last essay, studying a piece by Schubert, sifts the prospects of deciphering a composer’s sexual leanings from his music.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783631770658
Publisher:	Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	01/29/2020
Series:	Methodology of Music Research , #10
Pages:	616
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Bengt Edlund, trained as a pianist and formerly active as a music critic, has worked as a professor of musicology at the University of Lund. His main fields of interest are music theory and analysis, music cognition and aethetics, and musical interpretation. Related titles: Chopin – the Preludes and Beyond, and Questioning Schenkerism.

Table of Contents

Analytical Variations on a Theme by Mozart – In Defence of Musical Ambiguity – Mozart out of Proportion – Hidden Repetitions and Uncovered Parallelisms – An das ferne Verwandte – Warum Grillen? – Suing a Sound-Alike – Schubert’s Promissory Note. Further Exercises in Musical Hermeneutics.