The Finale in Western Instrumental Music
Michael Talbot
Price: £96.00 (hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-816695-5
Publication date: 24 May 2001
264 pages, 38 music examples, 234x156 mm
Series: Oxford Monographs on Music
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| - 'Well-researched ... Well written and well produced, this book deserves a place on the shelves of musicologists, who ought to ponder Talbot's judicious balance between historical and analytical enquiry.' - British Journal of Aesthetics
- 'One of the strengths of Talbot's attitude towards his very diverse material is his straightforwardness concerning the reasons for subtle, gradual changes in the nature of the finale.' - British Journal of Aesthetics
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| Description | | - First book to consider finales as a general musical 'species', to establish a typology for them, and to investigate in detail how they work (or fail to work).
| | The knowledge that finales are by tradition (and perhaps also necessarily) 'different' from other movements has been around a long time, but this is the first time that the special nature of finales in instrumental music has been examined comprehensively and in detail. Three main types of finale, labelled 'relaxant', 'summative', and 'valedictory', are identified. Each type is studied
closely, with a wealth of illustration and analytical commentary covering the entire period from the Renaissance to the present day. The history of finales in five important genres -- suite, sonata, string quartet, symphony, and concerto -- is traced, and the parallels and divergences between these traditions are identified. Several wider issues are mentioned, including narrativity, musical
rounding, inter-movement relationships, and the nature of codas. The book ends with a look at the finales of all Shostakovich's string quartets, in which examples of most of the types may be found. |
Readership: Musicologists, musicians, serious concert-goers and record-collectors. The book might also interest those concerned with aesthetics in general.
Also, courses in the history of music (1500-2000), musical analysis, musical form, and the aesthetics of music. Because the book contains detailed references to a very wide range of composers and works, it is likely also to be recommended for 'dipping into' -- for example, by students working on dissertations.
| Contents |
1.
First Thoughts
2.
The Idea of a Movement
3.
The Idea of a Finale
4.
The Relaxant Finale
5.
The Summative Finale
6.
The Valedictory Finale
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Hybrid Solutions
8.
Patterns of Development
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Codas and Finales
10.
Final Thoughts
Bibliography
List of Musical Examples
Index to Musical Works
General Index
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Michael Talbot, James and Constance Alsop Professor of Music, University of Liverpool
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