'Considering the renewed interest in matters of musical form and the continuing fascination with this early Romantic composer, Hyland's book is a timely contribution that is eminently readable and elegant.' William E. Caplin, FRSC, Distinguished James McGill Professor Emeritus of Music Theory, McGill University
Part I. Contexts: 1. The lyric impulse: musicological and methodological contexts; 2. Schubert's string quartets: historical and analytical contexts; Part II. Analysis: 3. Musical closure and functional transformation: reanimating the dynamics of the lyric; 4. Schubert the progressive: parataxis and the dialectics of lyric teleology; 5. The temporality of lyric teleology: once more between sonata and variation in Schubert's quartets.