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- Title
Chopin and the Romantic Sonata: The First Movement of Op. 58.
- Authors
DAVIS, ANDREW
- Abstract
This article proposes that Romantic sonatas exploit in their formal structures multiply directed temporal narratives, comprising a temporal stream and various other streams that can be broadly characterized as atemporal. The temporal stream articulates the principal sonata trajectory and correlates with the concept known in structural narratology as the first narrative; the atemporal streams reside on alternate temporal levels and remain external to, or disengaged from, that of the first narrative. The structural and expressive implications of this opposition, together with the view of sonata-formal conventions made available in recent work on Sonata Theory, provide a framework within which the article explicates Chopin's robust dialogue, in the first movement of his Piano Sonata in B Minor, Op. 58, with Classical German-Austrian sonata conventions and contemporary Romantic aesthetic currents. The reading provides a foundation for reassessing Chopin's work in the sonata genre, the norms and expressive potential of which he is often thought of as never fully apprehending.
- Subjects
CHOPIN, Frederic, 1810-1849; SONATA form; MUSICAL composition; ROMANTICISM; BERGER, Karol
- Publication
Music Theory Spectrum, 2014, Vol 36, Issue 2, p270
- ISSN
0195-6167
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/mts/mtu013