Hypermetric Manipulations in Haydn and Mozart
Chamber Music for Strings, 1787 - 1791
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 12 October 2021
- ISBN 9780197548905
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages408 pages
- Size 152x236x30 mm
- Weight 739 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 277 music examples, 34 figures 253
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Short description:
Hypermetric Manipulations in Haydn and Mozart offers a systematic classification of hypermetrical irregularities in relation to phrase structure. It also offers 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.
MoreLong description:
For the past four decades, the concept of hypermeter has been routinely applied to eighteenth-century music. But was this concept familiar in the eighteenth century? If so, how is it reflected in writings of eighteenth-century music theorists? And how does it relate to their discussion of phrase structure? In this book, a follow-up to the award-winning Metric Manipulations in Haydn and Mozart, author Danuta Mirka unearthes a number of cues that point to eighteenth-century recognition of what today is called hypermeter, and retraces the line of tradition that led from eighteenth-century music theory to the emergence of the modern concept of hypermeter in the twentieth century.
Mirka describes the proto-theory of hypermeter developed by German music theorists, recounts the recent history of this concept in American music theory, evaluates contributions made to it by authors working within different theoretical traditions, 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 Haydn's and Mozart's chamber music for strings, which shed a new light upon this celebrated repertoire, but the aim of this book goes far beyond an analytical survey of specific compositions. Rather, it is to offer a systematic classification of hypermetrical irregularities in relation to phrase structure and 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.
What makes the book so compelling is how Mirka synthesizes four decades of music-theoretical research on rhythm and metre and deftly weaves in insights from topic theory, schema theory, historical music theory and music cognition. The result is an impressive set of new theoretical tools for eighteenth-century music that pertain not only to hypermetre but also to the analysis of melody, rhythm and small-scale forms.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Note on Terminology, Language, and Musical Examples
Chapter 1. Hypermeter
1.1. Accents
1.2. Counting
1.3. Phrases and Hypermeasures
1.4. Dynamic Model of Hypermeter
Chapter 2. Phrase Structure
2.1. Caesuras and Melodic Sections Contained by Them
2.2. Length and Proportion of Melodic Sections
Chapter 3. Hypermetrical Irregularity in Basic Phrases
3.1. Irregular Phrases
3.2. Subdivisions
3.3. Long Phrases without Subdivisions
Chapter 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
Chapter 5. Hypermetrical Irregularities in Expanded Phrases
5.1. Parenthesis
5.2. Repetition
5.3. Appendix
Chapter 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
Chapter 7. Hypermeter Beyond Phrase Structure
7.1. Sequences
7.2. Fugato
7.3. Augmented Cadences
Chapter 8. Hypermeter, Phrase Structure, and Rhetorical Figures
8.1. Ellipsis
8.2. Anadiplosis
Chapter 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
Bibliography
Index of Compositions by Haydn and Mozart
General Index
