[CAUT] Schubert and "dark keys"

[Laurence Libin]

      Elizabeth NORMAN MCKAY
      Schubert: The Piano and Dark Keys 


     
      2010. XII, 135 S. mit 90 Notenbeispielen. gr-8°. Kart. 
     
      978 3 7952 1289 6
     
        € 36.–
     

      The structure of this book on Schubert and dark keys – in two parts, each with subsections – should be immediately discernible from the Table of Contents which precedes the first chapter. After the Introduction follows the main section of Part I. Here Schubert´s expressive relationships with dark keys, specifically in his vocal music, piano dances and early piano duets, are established. Thereafter, a diversion by inclusion of other unusual or extreme keys in musical works of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, prepares the way for Part II, with its application of the influence on Schubert of his Classical inheritance. Thus Part II begins with further examples of Schubert´s response to tonalities in the music of his immediate forebears, including their operas and symphonies. It then moves forward to a consideration of how he gradually progressed from his own somewhat unsuccessful earlier efforts at composing sonatas for the piano, to become a master composer of fine and undoubtedly progressive later works for piano conceived with new tonal and formal structures. Many of the latter works incorporated passages in dark keys – with strikingly expressive content. The analysis of Schubert´s tonal progressions is a vital part of this study. 


     

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