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- Title
Musical Form in the Novel: Beyond the Sonata Principle.
- Authors
Stricker, Jeppe Klitgaard
- Abstract
Sonata form has traditionally taken - or, rather, been given - the role as one of the primary devices that carries the function of reflecting on the formal structures of novels that in one way or another possess musical qualities. Word and music critics have often asserted that the sonata form model more or less successfully fits the formal scheme or narrative structure of a particular novel, and the reader is then left to wonder what this may signify regarding the work in question - and indeed what it implies regarding our understanding of such works more generally. This essay contends that sonata form is something that cannot be isolated from other musical properties; that it is a musical feature that necessarily belongs to the unique musical design. Consequently, the essay does not make claims for a general solution to the problems that arise from direct analogical comparisons between the art forms. It does, however, offer the view that at least in some music-novels, the notion of music-literary gesture can facilitate a better understanding of the collaborations between music and the novel than the sonata form model provides.
- Subjects
SONATA form; MUSIC
- Publication
Word & Music Studies, 2016, Vol 15, p237
- ISSN
1566-0958
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1163/9789004314863_015