Austria/Germany, Scandinavia, England, Soviet Russia
Time Frame:
Late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
Key Issues / Concepts:
A critical assessment of sonata form in symphonic structures of the late nineteeth and early twentieth centuries.
Abstract:
It is the aim of this thesis to scrutinise the progression of the symphony from Austro-German hegemony in the nineteenth century, to multi-national diversification in the first half of the twentieth century, using first-movement sonata forms of representative works as developmental indicators. The central argument will address these formal matters, and also concepts of both nationalism and modernism; conscious of the plurality of these paradigms I do propose a model of a single definitive ‘modernist’ symphony, but rather explore a selection of symphonic modernisms from an analytical perspective, with a view to discovering whether these developments can be recognised as revitalising the symphony in the twentieth century, as individual symphonic modernisms, or whether they are only synthetic representations of an Austro-German tradition that remains in the past.
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University College Dublin
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