Mendelssohn, Time and Memory: The Romantic Conception of Cyclic Form

ISBN-13: 9781108970532 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 313 str.

Benedict Taylor

Opis

An examination of cyclic form in Mendelssohn's instrumental music and its implications for conceptions of musical time, memory and history.

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. The idea of cyclic form; 2. Musical history and self-consciousness: the Octet, Op. 20; 3. Returning home: the E major Piano Sonata, Op. 6; 4. In search of lost time: the A minor Quartet, Op. 13; 5. Overcoming the past: the E flat Quartet, Op. 12; 6. Cyclicism in Mendelssohn's mature music.