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- Title
In Search of Carl Czerny's Schemata: Listening to Early Nineteenth-Century Improvisation.
- Authors
Rabinovitch, Gilad
- Abstract
This article analyzes Carl Czerny's exemplars for fantasizing in Systematische Anleitung zum Fantasieren auf dem Pianoforte (1829). I argue that a musical prototype combining scale-degree schemata (Meyer 1980 , Gjerdingen 2007) and sentential features (Caplin 1998) emerges as an implicit knowledge structure in several of Czerny's notated musical examples that demonstrate how to react to a given theme for improvisation. Through an examination of notated fantasies recommended by Czerny as models for extemporizing, I propose a beginning-of-fantasy prototype, which allows us to discern improvisatory qualities in Beethoven's notated "artworks" such as the Tempest sonata, the Appassionata , and others.
- Subjects
NINETEENTH century; PIANO; LISTENING; BEETHOVEN, Ludwig van, 1770-1827; SONATA; PROTOTYPES; MUSIC improvisation
- Publication
Music Theory Spectrum, 2022, Vol 44, Issue 2, p370
- ISSN
0195-6167
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/mts/mtac008