Skip to Main Content
 

Global Search Box

 
 
 
 

Files

File List


47997.pdf (5 MB)

ETD Abstract Container

Abstract Header

The Secondary Sonata: Sonata Form in Late-Twentieth-Century Symphonic Repertoire

Delfin, Anne
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1721145380878046

Abstract Details

2024, PhD, University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music: Theory.
This dissertation develops an analytical tool called “the secondary-parameter network” that uses secondary parameters to define sonata form in late-twentieth-century symphonic repertoire. Instead of relying upon tonal inheritance or themes to define sonata form in the symphonies of late-century composers such as Edison Denisov, Lowell Liebermann, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Christopher Rouse, and Isang Yun, the secondary-parameter network uses changes of instrumentation, rhythms, time signature, dynamics, contrapuntal texture, and tempo to identify formal junctures. Essentially, most or all secondary parameters change at formal boundaries. The method developed here differs from those of other scholars of twentieth-century sonata-form repertoire, such as Lofthouse, Perry, and Tarrant, who employ Sonata Theory to account for the works of, respectively, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, and Nielsen. While their recalibration of Sonata Theory accounts for this mid-century repertoire well, first movements of multimovement symphonies by late-twentieth-century composers require a different approach because the idea of rotation is no longer relevant. The secondary-parameter network offers a new reading of sonata form through a ground-up construction of sonata form based on significant changes to secondary parameters.
Christopher Segall, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Cristina Losada, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Samuel Ng, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
287 p.
Music
secondary parameters; sonata form; late twentieth century; Sonata Theory; formal functions

Recommended Citations

Citations

  • Delfin, A. (2024). The Secondary Sonata: Sonata Form in Late-Twentieth-Century Symphonic Repertoire [Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1721145380878046

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Delfin, Anne. The Secondary Sonata: Sonata Form in Late-Twentieth-Century Symphonic Repertoire. 2024. University of Cincinnati, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1721145380878046.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Delfin, Anne. "The Secondary Sonata: Sonata Form in Late-Twentieth-Century Symphonic Repertoire." Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2024. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1721145380878046

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

ucin1721145380878046
95
© 2024, all rights reserved.
This open access ETD is published by University of Cincinnati and OhioLINK.
Release 3.2.12