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Beethoven and the Obscured Medial Caesura: A Study in the Transformation of Style
Ist Teil von
Music theory spectrum, 2013-10, Vol.35 (2), p.166-193
Ort / Verlag
Oxford: University of California Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2013
Quelle
Oxford Journals 2020 Humanities
Beschreibungen/Notizen
The continual evolution of Beethoven’s musical style had a profound effect on his treatment of the medial caesura (MC), James Hepokoski and Warren Darcy’s term for the break in texture that occurs in a sonata form before the secondary-theme zone. Over his career, Beethoven gradually preferred increasingly obscured MCs in his fast-tempo Type 3 sonatas. This article categorizes these MCs by their degree of obscurity and examines the techniques that contribute to their obscured state. It is argued that the increasing obscurity of these MCs is linked to Beethoven’s larger stylistic migration towards a greater musical connectivity as time progresses.