Musical Meaning in Beethoven : Markedness, Correlation, and Interpretation (Musical Meaning and Interpretation)

"Musical Meaning in Beethoven" offers a fresh approach to the problem of expressive meaning in music. Beginning with a provocative analysis of the slow movement of the Hammerklavier piano sonata, Robert S. Hatten examines the roles of markedness, Classical topics, expressive genres, and musical tropes in fostering expressive interpretation at all levels of structure. Close readings of movements from Beethoven's late piano sonatas and string quartets highlight less obvious expressive meanings and explain how more familiar stylistic meanings are consistently cued from one work to the next. Co-recipient of the 1997 Wallace Berry Publication Award from the Society for Music Theory.

CONTENIDO

Foreword by David Lidov
Preface

Introduction

Part I. Interpretation and Theory
I. A Case Study for Interpretation
- The Third Movement of Op. 106 (Hammerklavier)
II. Correlation, Interpretation, and the Markedness of Oppositions
III. From Topic to Expressive Genre
IV. The Pastoral Expressive Genre
- The Four Movements of Op. 101
V. The Thematic Level and the Markedness of Classical Material
VI. Thematic Markedness
- The first movements of Op. 130 and Op. 131
VII. Beyond the Hierarchies of Correlation
- Troping, Irony, Levels of Discourse, and Intertextuality
VIII. Analysis and Synthesis
- The Cavatina from Op. 130

Part II. Historical and Theoretical Perspectives
IX. From the Aesthetic to the Semiotic
X. Further Perspectives on Musical Meaning and Cognition

Conclusion
Appendix: Abnegation and the New Genre
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index of Concepts
Index of Names and Works