Analyzing Tension and Drama in Beethoven’s First-movement Sonata Forms

Dramatic, in the sense of “highly intense,” is a quality we often associate with the music of Beethoven, but no theory has attempted to define drama in any systematic manner. This study therefore explores the idea by constructing a theory that distinguishes between dramatic and non-dramatic passages...

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Main Author: Richards, Mark Christopher
Other Authors: McClelland, Ryan
Language:en_ca
Published: 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/29847