Elements of Sonata Theory outlines a fresh approach to analysing the sonata. Both building on and departing from earlier methods of analysis, this study provides a comprehensive and in-depth examination of the sonata genre. After establishing the normative features of the sonata, the authors examine how individual sonatas from Beethoven, Haydn, and Mozart both adhere to and deviate from those standards to a variety of effects. Co-authored by a music
theorist and a musicologist, this book both provides a groundbreaking foundational theory and offers fresh insights on individual works from the Western canon.
- ISBN10 6612270705
- ISBN13 9786612270703
- Publish Date 31 August 2006
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 29 February 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Oxford University Press, USA
- Format eBook
- Pages 680
- Language English