What is a cadence? : Theoretical and analytical perspectives on cadences in the classical repertoire /

The concept of closure is crucial to understanding music from the "classical" style. This volume focuses on the primary means of achieving closure in tonal music: the cadence. Written by leading North American and European scholars, the nine essays assembled in this volume seek to account...

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Other Authors: Bergé, Pieter (Editor), Neuwirth, Markus, 1982- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leuven, Belgium : Leuven Univerisity Press, [2015]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: What Is a Cadence? Nine perspectives / Markus Neuwirth and Pieter Bergé
  • Harmony and Cadence in Gjerdingen's "Prinner" / William E. Caplin
  • Beyond 'Harmony': The Cadence in the Partitura Tradition / Felix Diergarten
  • The Half Cadence and Related Analytic Fictions / Poundie Burstein
  • Fuggir la Cadenza, or The Art of Avoiding Cadential Closure: Physiognomy and Functions of Deceptive Cadences in the Classical Repertoire / Markus Neuwirth
  • The Mystery of the Cadential Six-Four / Danuta Mirka
  • The Mozartean Half Cadence / Nathan John Martin and Julie Pedneault-Deslauriers
  • "Hauptruhepuncte des Geistes": Punctuation Schemas and the Late-Eighteenth-Century Sonata / Vasili Byros
  • The Perception of Cadential Closure / David Sears
  • Towards a Syntax of the Classical Cadence / Martin Rohrmeier and Markus Neuwirth.