Schubert's Workshop: Volume 1

Schubert's Workshop offers a fresh study of the composer's compositional technique and its development, rooted in the author's experience of realising performing versions of Franz Schubert's unfinished works.

Autorentext

Brian Newbould is a musicologist whose completions of several unfinished symphonies and other works by Schubert are played, broadcast and recorded worldwide. He has lectured in the North and South Americas, the Antipodes, and across Europe and Scandinavia. Schubert's Workshop is his third book on this composer.

Klappentext

Schubert's Workshop offers a fresh study of the composer's compositional technique and its development, rooted in the author's experience of realising performing versions of Franz Schubert's unfinished works.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: Tools

Chapter 2: Apprenticeship

Chapter 3: Theme

Chapter 4: Devices

Chapter 5: Counterpoint

Chapter 6: Harmonic Strategy

Chapter 7: The Diminished Seventh

Chapter 8: The Augmented Sixth

Chapter 9: Harmonic Fingerprints

Chapter 10: Dissonance

Chapter 11: Major and Minor

Chapter 12: The Cadential Six-Four

Chapter 13: The Stepping Bass

Chapter 14: Phraseology

Chapter 15: Texture

Chapter 16: Concerto?

Chapter 17: Orchestration

Chapter 18: The Excursion

Chapter 19: The Bohemian Sixth and a Matter of Legacy

Chapter 20: The Tonally-enriched Exposition

Chapter 21: Metrical Concerns

Chapter 22: The Back-Bonded Third Bar

Chapter 23: Triads and Tonics