Schubert's Workshop: Volume 2

Mastery and Beyond

Brian Newbould

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781032317731
• eBook ISBN: 9781000640984
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Classical Music

Schubert's Workshop offers a fresh study of the composer's compositional technique and its development, rooted in the author's experience of realising performing versions of Franz Schubert's unfinished works. Through close examination of Schubert's use of technical and structural devices, Brian Newbould demonstrates that Schubert was much more technically innovative than has been supposed, and argues that the composer's technical discoveries constitute a rich legacy of specific influences on later composers. Providing rich new insights into the creative practice of one of the major figures of classical music, this two-volume study reframes our understanding of Schubert as an innovator who constantly pushed at the frontiers of style and expression.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• List of Abbreviations
• Acknowledgements
• Definitions
• Note of the eResources
• 24 The ‘Wanderer’ Fantasy
• 25 The Late Trios and Structural Serendipity
• 26 The Diabelli Variation
• 27 Symmetries
• 28 Segmentation
• 29 Cycles 1: Closed Cycles
• 30 Open Cycles
• 31 Counterpoint in Late Schubert
• 32 Aspects of Quartet Thinking
• 33 Thought for Four Without Forethought?
• 34 Productivity, Improvisation, Process and Genre
• Unfinished Business
• Index of works by Schubert
• Index