New series of essays published

I have published a seven-part essay series titled Formal Functions in Menuets by Mozart. Part 7 is "Contemporaries and Successors, 1780-1828" and includes discussion of named menuets by Schubert.   Link to Part 7.


Here is the abstract.

This final essay in the Mozart series charts formal functions (after Caplin) in named menuets written by other composers during the last ten years of Mozart’s life, 1780-1791, and by three composers active in Vienna thereafter, through the death of Schubert (1828). The repertoire includes menuets by Carl and Anton Stamitz, Franz Joseph Haydn, Luigi Boccherini, Giovanni Viotti, and Adalbert Gyrowetz, and several others. The three later composers are Beethoven, Hummel, and Schubert. Concluding comments return to questions of musical form theory.

Here is a link to Part 1in the series: Formal Functions in Menuets by Mozart, Part 1: Orchestral Works and Independent Sets. And the abstract:

A study of formal functions (after Caplin) in named menuets by Mozart, the larger goal being to historicize more fully form-design practices in European music during the second half of the eighteenth century.

Finally, titles for Parts 2-6:

Part 2: Sonatas and Chamber Music.Part 3: A Comparison with Johann Christian Bach.Part 4: His Older Contemporaries, to 1770.Part 5: More to Theoretical Issues.Part 6: Contemporaries, 1771-1780.