Schubert's Workshop (Two Volume Set)
- Author: Newbould, Brian
Schubert's Workshop (Two Volume Set)
- Author: Newbould, Brian
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Schubert's Workshop offers a fresh study of the composer's compositional technique and its development, rooted in the author's experience of realising performing versions of Franz Schubert's unfinished works. Through close examination of Schubert's use of technical and structural devices, Brian Newbould demonstrates that Schubert was much more technically innovative than has been supposed, and argues that the composer's technical discoveries constitute a rich legacy of specific influences on later composers. Providing rich new insights into the creative practice of one of the major figures of classical music, this two-volume study reframes our understanding of Schubert as an innovator who constantly pushed at the frontiers of style and expression.
Contents
- Volume 1: Towards an Early Maturity
- Preface
- Rationale
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Definitions
- 1. Tools
- 2. Apprenticeship
- 3. Theme
- 4. Devices
- 5. Counterpoint
- 6. Harmonic Strategy
- 7. The Diminished Seventh
- 8. The Augmented Sixth
- 9. Harmonic Fingerprints
- 10. Dissonance
- 11. Major and Minor
- 12. The Cadential Six-Four
- 13. The Stepping Bass
- 14. Phraseology
- 15. Texture
- 16. Concerto?
- 17. Orchestration
- 18. The Excursion
- 19. The Bohemian Sixth and a Matter of Legacy
- 20. The Tonally-Enriched Exposition
- 21. Metrical Concerns
- 22. The Back-bonded Third Bar
- 23. Triads and Tonics
- Volume 2: Mastery and Beyond
- 24. The 'Wanderer' Fantasy
- 25. The Late Trios and Structural Serendipity
- 26. A Diabelli Variation
- 27. Symmetries
- 28. Segmentation
- 29. Cycles I
- 30. Cycles II
- 31. Counterpoint in Late Schubert
- 32. Aspects of Quartet-Thinking
- 33. Case Study: A Late Finale
- 34. Productivity, Improvisation, Process and Genre
- 35. Symphony No. 7 in E, D.729
- 36. Symphony 'No. 10' in D, D.936a
- 37. Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D.759 ('Unfinished')
- 38. Chamber Music
- 39. Piano Sonata in C, D.850 ('Relique')
- 40. String Quartet in C minor, D.703: Andante
- 41. Symphonies in D, D.2b and D.615
- 42. Symphony in D, D.708a
- 43. A Postscript
- 44. Postlude
- 45. The Schubert Legacy
- Notes
- List of Works
- Index
