جهت استعلام قیمت، خرید و مشاهده نمونه صفحه محصول، لطفاً از طریق پشتیبانی فروشگاه در واتساپ و تلگرام اقدام فرمایید.
by Yoel Greenberg
Traditional approaches to musical form have always adopted a
top-down perspective whereby a work's form organizes and unifies the
individual parts of the work through an overarching logic. How Sonata Forms
turns this view on its head, proposing instead that it was the parts
that conditioned and enabled the whole. Relying on a corpus of over a
thousand works, author Yoel Greenberg illustrates how the elements of
sonata form arose independently of one another, with an overarching idea
of form only emerging at the tail end of its formative period during
the eighteenth century.
Appreciation of the bottom-up nature of
sonata form's evolution reveals it not as a stable package of features
that all serve a common aesthetic or formal goal, but rather as an
unstable collection of disparate and sometimes even contradictory common
practices. The resolution of these contradictions presents a challenge
to composers, rendering form a creative catalyst in itself, rather than
as a compositional convenience. More generally, the deeply diachronic
perspective of How Sonata Forms
offers an alternative to the traditional synchronic outlook that
pervades music theory in general and the study of form in particular.
Rather than focus on definitions and taxonomies, How Sonata Forms
proposes a focus on the motion of the system of form as a whole,
suggesting that it is often more productive to appreciate the dynamics
of a system than it is to rigorously define its parts.