When Schubert's contemporary reviewers first heard his modulations, they
famously claimed that they were excessive, odd and unplanned. This book
argues that these claims have haunted the analysis of Schubert's
harmony ever since, outlining why Schubert's music occupies a curiously
marginal position in the history of music theory. Analyzing Schubert
traces how critics, analysts and historians from the early nineteenth
century to the present day have preserved cherished narratives of
wandering, alienation, memory and trance by emphasizing the mystical
rather than the logical quality of the composer's harmony. This study
proposes a new method for analyzing the harmony of Schubert's works.
Rather than pursuing an approach that casts Schubert's famous harmonic
moves as digressions from the norms of canonical theoretical paradigms,
Suzannah Clark explores how the harmonic fingerprints in Schubert's
songs and instrumental sonata forms challenge pedigreed habits of
thought about what constitutes a theory of tonal and formal order.
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