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Listening to Topics in the Nineteenth Century

Horton, Julian

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Danuta Mirka
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Abstract

This chapter evaluates issues in the topical analysis of nineteenth-century music, paying close attention to the persistence of eighteenth-century topics in changed social and cultural-political contexts, the emergence and function of new topics after 1800, and attendant shifts in the values of pedagogy and musical listening. The article develops these issues in two analytical case studies: an investigation of the role topics play in Schumann’s reevaluation of the piano concerto, as embodied in the first movement of his Concerto Op. 54; and an analysis of the Finale of Bruckner’s Symphony No. 7 relating topical discourse to the work’s Viennese reception, as instantiated in the reviews of Eduard Hanslick, Gustav Dömpke, and Max Kalbeck.

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Horton, J. (2014). Listening to Topics in the Nineteenth Century. In D. Mirka (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Topic Theory (642-664). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199841578.013.0026

Online Publication Date Nov 3, 2014
Publication Date 2014-11
Deposit Date Sep 21, 2015
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 642-664
Series Title Oxford Handbooks
Book Title The Oxford Handbook of Topic Theory.
Chapter Number 25
DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199841578.013.0026
Public URL https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1645244
Contract Date Nov 5, 2013