Wordless Rhetoric: Musical Form and the Metaphor of the Oration

Abstract

Introduction: form and metaphor. Part 1 The paradox of form: generative and conformational approaches to form sonata form and the limits of definition. Part 2 Rhetoric and the concept of form in the 18th century: rhetoric and the pragmatic orientation of 18th-century aesthetics music as a language grammar and rhetoric rhetoric and the theory of the compositional process melody and the thematic basis of form genre, formal convention, and individual genius. Part 3 Continuity and change in later metaphors of form: the continuity of rhetorical imagery in the 19th century the metaphor of the organism and the emerging paradox of form three case studies - Reicha, Marx, Schoenberg. Part 4 Rhetoric and the autonomy of instrumental music: rhetoric and the musical idea rhetoric and analysis in the late 18th century and early 19th centuries. Part 5 Rhetoric and the role of the listener in the analysis of large-scale form: listener-oriented theories of form listening for the plot - the rhetoric of formal archetypes analyzing the oration - the first movement of Haydn's Symphony No. 46 in B Major. Part 6 Originals of quotations given in translation.

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