Full Description
The concept of closure is crucial to understanding music from the "classical" style. This volume focuses on the primary means of achieving closure in tonal music: the cadence. Written by leading North American and European scholars, the nine chapters seek to account for the great variety and complexity inherent in the cadence by approaching it from different subdisciplinary angles, including music-analytical, theoretical, historical, psychological (experimental), as well as linguistic. Each of these chapters challenges, in one way or another, our common notion of cadence. Controversial viewpoints between the chapters are highlighted by numerous cross-references. Given the ubiquity of cadences in tonal music in general, this volume is aimed not only at a broad portion of the academic community, scholars and students alike, but also at music performers.Contributors: Pieter Berge (KU Leuven), Poundie Burstein (City University of New York), Vasili Byros (Northwestern University), William Caplin (McGill University), Felix Diergarten (Schola Cantorum Basiliensis), Nathan John Martin (Yale University / KU Leuven), Danuta Mirka (University of Southampton), Markus Neuwirth (KU Leuven), Julie Pedneault-Deslauriers (University of Ottawa), Martin Rohrmeier (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), and David Sears (McGill University)
Contents
Introduction: What is a Cadence? Nine Perspectives Markus Neuwirth and Pieter Bergé
Harmony and Cadence in Gjerdingen's "Prinner"William E. Caplin
Beyond 'Harmony' The Cadence in the Partitura Tradition Felix Diergarten
The Half Cadence and Related Analytic Fictions Poundie Burstein
Fuggir la Cadenza, or The Art of Avoiding Cadential Closure Physiognomy and Functions of Deceptive Cadences in the Classical Repertoire Markus Neuwirth
The Mystery of the Cadential Six-FourDanuta MirkaThe Mozartean Half CadenceNathan John Martin and Julie Pedneault-Deslauriers
"Hauptruhepuncte des Geistes" Punctuation Schemas and the Late-Eighteenth-Century Sonata Vasili Byros
The Perception of Cadential Closure David Sears
Towards a Syntax of the Classical Cadence Martin Rohrmeier and Markus Neuwirth
List of Contributors
Index
