Schubert's string quartets : the teleology of lyric form / Anne M. Hyland.

Author/creator Hyland, Anne M., 1981- author.
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Publication InfoCambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Descriptionxx, 308 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
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SeriesMusic in context
Music in context. ^A1130438
Contents Introduction: Schubert as vanishing point -- Part I: Contexts. The lyric impulse: musicological and methodological contexts ; Schubert's string quartets: historical and analytical contexts -- Part II: Analysis. Musical closure and functional transformation: reanimating the dynamics of the lyric ; Schubert the progressive: parataxis and the dialectics of lyric teleology ; The temporality of lyric teleology: once more between sonata and variation in Schubert's quartets.
Abstract Franz Schubert's music has long been celebrated for its lyrical melodies, 'heavenly length' and daring harmonic language. In this new study of Schubert's complete string quartets, the author challenges the influential but under-explored claim that Schubert could not successfully incorporate the lyric style into his sonatas, and offers a novel perspective on lyric form that embraces historical musicology, philosophy and music theory and analysis. Her exploration of the quartets reveals Schubert's development of a lyrically conceived teleology, bringing musical form, expression and temporality together in the service of fresh intellectual engagement. Her formal analyses grant special focus to the quartets of 1810-16, isolating the questions they pose for existing music theory and employing these as a means of scrutinising the relationship between the concepts of lyricism, development, closure and teleology thereby opening up space for these works to challenge some of the discourses that have historically beset them.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 279-296) and index.
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