Hugo Wolf's Lieder and Extensions of Tonality

Revised Auflage
ISBN: 978-0-8357-1995-7
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, 334 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 387 g

Study of the harmonic language of the late 19c based on songs by Hugo Wolf.

The harmonic language of the late nineteenth-century is studied here as a development of common-practice tonality, taking as a model selected songs by Hugo Wolf. Late nineteenth-century romantic composers employed extended-tonallanguage in a variety of genres, and a special feature of such tonal exapansion was the use of extra musical elements. Hugo Wolfs output, encompassing over 160 miniature masterworks, displays all the necessary characteristics, and makes an ideal subject for studying extensions of tonality.
The study is organised to focus on individual techniques of tonal expanison, then to explore the foundations of that technique, and finally, to illustrate the conclusions with particular Wolf songs. Necessarily, Wolf's relationship to Richard Wagner, and to Wagner's revolutionary musical language, forms a part of this study, and so too does the similarity of Wolf's music to that of his contemporaries.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stein, Deborah J

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musiktheorie, Musikästhetik, Kompositionslehre
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Vokalmusik, Chormusik
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik Geschichte der Musik: Romantik (ca. 1830-1900)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
1. Introduction to the Music and the Methodology
2. The Plagal Domain
3. Third Relations
4. Directional Tonality
5. Combinations of Extended-Tonal Techniques
Epilogue
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index