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Valuing the Surplus: Perspectives on Julian Horton's Article ‘On the Musicological Necessity of Music Analysis’, Musical Quarterly, 3/i–ii, pp. 62–104.Contributors: Kofi Agawu, Gurminder K. Bhogal, Esther Cavett, Jonathan Dunsby, Julian Horton, Alexandra Monchick, Ian Pace, Henry Stobart and Simon Zagorski‐Thomas, compiled and edited by Esther Cavett (2023)
Journal Article
Agawu, K., Bhogal, G. K., Cavett, E., Dunsby, J., Horton, J., Monchick, A., …Zagorski‐Thomas, S. (2023). Valuing the Surplus: Perspectives on Julian Horton's Article ‘On the Musicological Necessity of Music Analysis’, Musical Quarterly, 3/i–ii, pp. 62–104.Contributors: Kofi Agawu, Gurminder K. Bhogal, Esther Cavett, Jonathan Dunsby, Julian Horton, Alexandra Monchick, Ian Pace, Henry Stobart and Simon Zagorski‐Thomas, compiled and edited by Esther Cavett. Music Analysis, 42(3), 412-471. https://doi.org/10.1111/musa.12221

Julian Horton's 2020 article on the ‘necessity of analysis’ delineates previous critiques of music analysis into the performative and the historicist and counters their assumptions. He proposes that analysis remains viable in light of historical, ont... Read More about Valuing the Surplus: Perspectives on Julian Horton's Article ‘On the Musicological Necessity of Music Analysis’, Musical Quarterly, 3/i–ii, pp. 62–104.Contributors: Kofi Agawu, Gurminder K. Bhogal, Esther Cavett, Jonathan Dunsby, Julian Horton, Alexandra Monchick, Ian Pace, Henry Stobart and Simon Zagorski‐Thomas, compiled and edited by Esther Cavett.

Beethoven's Error? The Modulating Ritornello and the Type-5 Sonata in the Post-Classical Piano Concerto (2021)
Journal Article
Horton, J. (2021). Beethoven's Error? The Modulating Ritornello and the Type-5 Sonata in the Post-Classical Piano Concerto. Music Analysis, 40(3), 353-412. https://doi.org/10.1111/musa.12180

In his analysis of the first movement of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3, Op. 37, Donald Francis Tovey dismissed Beethoven's decision to modulate for the second theme in the movement's opening tutti as an ‘error’ that gives the impression of a symph... Read More about Beethoven's Error? The Modulating Ritornello and the Type-5 Sonata in the Post-Classical Piano Concerto.

Rethinking Sonata Failure: Mendelssohn's Overture Zum Märchen von der schönen Melusine (2021)
Journal Article
Horton, J. (2021). Rethinking Sonata Failure: Mendelssohn's Overture Zum Märchen von der schönen Melusine. Music Theory Spectrum, 43(2), 299-319. https://doi.org/10.1093/mts/mtaa032

This article counterpoints James Hepokoski’s notion of sonata failure (Hepokoski 2002; Hepokoski and Darcy 2006) and the concept of “becoming” advocated by Janet Schmalfeldt (2011) as analytical tools in the developing field of Romantic Formenlehre.... Read More about Rethinking Sonata Failure: Mendelssohn's Overture Zum Märchen von der schönen Melusine.

Syntax and Process in the First Movement of Mendelssohn’s Piano Trio, Op. 66 (2020)
Book Chapter
Horton, J. (2020). Syntax and Process in the First Movement of Mendelssohn’s Piano Trio, Op. 66. In B. Taylor (Ed.), Rethinking Mendelssohn. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190611781.003.0011

This chapter develops the claim that Felix Mendelssohn’s pivotal innovation in the realm of instrumental form lies in his strikingly post-classical response to the relationship between form and syntax. The C minor Piano Trio, Op. 66, reveals a rich a... Read More about Syntax and Process in the First Movement of Mendelssohn’s Piano Trio, Op. 66.

'Form and Orbital Tonality in the Finale of Bruckner's Seventh Symphony' (2018)
Journal Article
Horton, J. (2018). 'Form and Orbital Tonality in the Finale of Bruckner's Seventh Symphony'. Music Analysis, 37(3), 271-309. https://doi.org/10.1111/musa.12124

This article investigates questions of form in the Finale of Bruckner's Seventh Symphony, paying special attention to the reversed recapitulation as a problematic category in contemporary Formenlehre. Counterpointing Timothy Jackson's reading of the... Read More about 'Form and Orbital Tonality in the Finale of Bruckner's Seventh Symphony'.

Criteria for a Theory of Nineteenth-Century Sonata Form (2017)
Journal Article
Horton, J. (2017). Criteria for a Theory of Nineteenth-Century Sonata Form. Music Theory and Analysis, 4(2), 147-191. https://doi.org/10.11116/mta.4.2.1

Thanks to the work of Janet Schmalfeldt, James Hepokoski, Steven Vande Moortele, and others, progress toward a theory of form for nineteenth-century instrumental music has accelerated in recent years. This article addresses some of the theoretical an... Read More about Criteria for a Theory of Nineteenth-Century Sonata Form.

Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 83: Analytical and Contextual Studies. (2017)
Book
Horton, J. (2017). Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 83: Analytical and Contextual Studies. Peeters Publishers

This book offers a detailed analytical study of Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 83. It develops a theoretical model for analyzing nineteenth-century instrumental forms, which elucidates Op. 83 in the context of Brahms' concerted works, their preced... Read More about Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 83: Analytical and Contextual Studies..

Schubert's Late Music: History, Theory, Style. (2016)
Book
Byrne Bodley, L., & Horton, J. (Eds.). (2016). Schubert's Late Music: History, Theory, Style. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781316275887

Schubert's late music has proved pivotal for the development of diverse fields of musical scholarship, from biography and music history to the theory of harmony. This collection addresses current issues in Schubert studies including compositional tec... Read More about Schubert's Late Music: History, Theory, Style..

Schubert. (2015)
Book
Horton, J. (Ed.). (2015). Schubert. Ashgate Publishing

Formal Type and Formal Function in the Postclassical Piano Concerto. (2015)
Book Chapter
Horton, J. (2015). Formal Type and Formal Function in the Postclassical Piano Concerto. In S. Vande Moortele, J. Pedneault-Deslauriers, & N. Martin (Eds.), Formal Functions in Perspective: Essays on Musical Form from Haydn to Adorno (77-122). University of Rochester Press, Boydell & Brewer. https://doi.org/10.7722/j.ctt17mvk3b.7

William E. Caplin’s theory of formal functions offers one of the most substantial accounts available of the formal strategies of Viennese-classical instrumental music. Elaborating and modernizing theFormenlehrenof Arnold Schoenberg and Erwin Ratz, Ca... Read More about Formal Type and Formal Function in the Postclassical Piano Concerto..