How Sonata Forms: A Bottom-Up Approach to Musical Form

ISBN-13: 9780197526286 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 264 str.

Yoel Greenberg

Recenzje

Using corpus studies, statistical analyses, and an innovative evolutionary approach (with nods to Darwin and Dawkins), Greenberg's brilliant study offers entirely original—and thoroughly convincing—perspectives on the transformation of 18th-century musical forms.

O autorze

Yoel Greenberg is a music theorist, musicologist and violist, currently serving as head of the department of music at Bar-Ilan University and violist with the Carmel Quartet. He holds a first degree in mathematics and computer science, and an MA and PhD in musicology from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. His research concerns the rise of sonata form using corpus-based methods to inform analysis of individual works. He has also published articles about music and the arts in the early twentieth century, and Jewish music. Greenberg is dedicated to public musical education and presents, together with the Carmel Quartet, the critically acclaimed series of concert-lectures, Strings and More.