Hypermetric manipulations in Haydn and Mozart : chamber music for strings, 1787-1791 / Danuta Mirka.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mirka, Danuta, author.

Series:

Oxford studies in music theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791.

Haydn, Joseph, 1732-1809.

Chamber music--18th century--Analysis, appreciation.

Chamber music.

Musical meter and rhythm--History--18th century.

Musical meter and rhythm.

Chamber music--Analysis, appreciation.

Haydn, Joseph, 1732-1809--Criticism and interpretation.

Haydn, Joseph.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791--Criticism and interpretation.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus.

Criticism and interpretation.

History.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 389 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

"This book presents a systematic discussion of hypermeter and phrase structure in eighteenth-century music. It combines perspectives from historical and modern music theory with insights from the cognitive study of music and introduces a dynamic model of hypermeter, which allows the analyst to trace the effect of hypermetric manipulations in real time. This model is applied in analyses of string chamber music by Haydn and Mozart. The analyses shed a new light upon this celebrated musical repertoire, but the aim of this book goes far beyond an analytical survey of specific compositions. Rather, it is to give a comprehensive account of the ways in which phrase structure and hypermeter were described by eighteenth-century music theorists, conceived by eighteenth-century composers, and perceived by eighteenth-century listeners"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Hypermeter

1.1. Accents

1.2. Counting

1.3. Phrases and Hypermeasures

1.4. Dynamic Model of Hypermeter

2. Phrase Structure

2.1. Caesuras and Melodic Sections Contained by Them

2.2. Length and Proportion of Melodic Sections

3. Hypermetrical Irregularities in Basic Phrases

3.1. Irregular Phrases

3.2. Subdivisions

3.3. Long Phrases without Subdivisions

4. Hypermetrical Irregularities in Compound Phrases

4.1. Left Elision, Right Elision, and Overlap

4.2. Right and Left Deletion

4.3. Phrase-Rhythmic Scenarios after a Cadence

4.4. Shadow Hypermeter

5. Hypermetrical Irregularities in Expanded Phrases

5.1. Parenthesis

5.2. Repetition

5.3. Appendix

6. Further Means of Phrase Expansion

6.1. Overridden Caesuras

6.2. Twisted Caesuras

6.3. Loops

6.4. Stretches

6.5. Written-out Rallentando

7. Hypermeter Beyond Phrase Structure

7.1. Sequences

7.2. Fugato

7.3. Augmented Cadences

8. Hypermeter, Phrase Structure, and Rhetorical Figures

8.1. Ellipsis

8.2. Anadiplosis

9. Beyond Rhetoric

9.1. Haydn, String Quartet in E flat major, Op. 50 No. 3, First Movement

9.2. Haydn, String Quartet in C major, Op. 64 No. 1, First Movement

9.3. Fiddler on the Roof in Haydn's String Quartets.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-375) and indexes.

Other Format:

Online version: Mirka, Danuta, Hypermetric manipulations in Haydn and Mozart

ISBN:

9780197548905

0197548903

OCLC:

1237860824

Publisher Number:

99988047148