MUTH 6680 "Satz and Ton in the Instrumental Music of Robert Schumann"
Graham H. Phipps
Summer 2005
Our concern has to do with explanation of musical form in instrumental works. Topics include:
* Coining the term “sonata” form: A. B. Marx with a helping hand from Carl Czerny
* a derivative of the “Rondo,” essentially a thematic view
* Eighteenth-century explanations: especially H. C. Koch
* a tonal view
* Form Pedagogies of the early-and middle-20th century:
* Ebenezer Prout
* Hugo Leichtentritt
* Shift to a tonal perspective:
* Leonard Ratner
* A more general perspective:
* Leonard Meyer
* Current thinking:
* William Caplin
* James Hepokoski and Warren Darcy: “Sonata deformation”