Suzannah Clark, Harvard University
25-29 March 2019
Analysis of 19th-century Lieder
Sentence structure in Haydn's String Quartet Op.76/4
Harmonic Theory in the 19th Century
As announced in the Fall 2018 newsletter, the DFSMT will welcome Suzannah Clark (Harvard University) to the lowlands in the week of 25 March as this year's "Music Theorist in Residence." Below you find all information regarding her residency in Amsterdam and Leuven, which includes a detailed program and all preparatory materials. The last of these can be found via a dropbox link:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/db9nfh7rhytobp4/AABRZf77DotSSPyFiyaqdaa1a?dl=0
During her visit, Professor Clark will deal with three general topics: 1) the analysis of 19th-century Lied (in Schubert and Liszt); 2) Sentence Structure in Haydn's String Quartet Op. 76, no. 4; and 3) Harmony Theory in the 19th century.
Sentence structure in Haydn's String Quartet Op.76/4
Harmonic Theory in the 19th Century
As announced in the Fall 2018 newsletter, the DFSMT will welcome Suzannah Clark (Harvard University) to the lowlands in the week of 25 March as this year's "Music Theorist in Residence." Below you find all information regarding her residency in Amsterdam and Leuven, which includes a detailed program and all preparatory materials. The last of these can be found via a dropbox link:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/db9nfh7rhytobp4/AABRZf77DotSSPyFiyaqdaa1a?dl=0
During her visit, Professor Clark will deal with three general topics: 1) the analysis of 19th-century Lied (in Schubert and Liszt); 2) Sentence Structure in Haydn's String Quartet Op. 76, no. 4; and 3) Harmony Theory in the 19th century.
Program
Amsterdam (25-26 March)
Monday, 25 March:
10.00 - 11.30 (Conservatorium van Amsterdam, Oosterdokskade 151, lokaal 4.45): Lied session 1, Schubert's "Trost" (D. 523)
11.30 - 13.00 (CvA, lokaal 4.45): Lied session 2, Schubert's "Schwanengesang" (D. 744)
15.30 - 17.00 (Universiteit van Amsterdam, Nieuwe Doelenstraat 16-18, lokaal 3.01): Lecture, "Weber's Rest" (see abstract below)
Tuesday, 26 March:
10.00 - 11.30 (CvA, Ensemblezaal): Sentence structure in Haydn's op. 76, no. 4, mov't II
11.30 - 13.00 (CvA, Ensemblezaal): Sentence structure in Haydn's op. 76, no. 4, mov't III
14.30 - 16.00 (CvA, lokaal 4.07): Lied session 3, Liszt's "Die stille Wasserrose" (S. 321)
16.00 - 17.30 (CvA, lokaal 4.07): Seminar on Arthur von Oettingen and harmonic dualism in the 19th century
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Leuven (28-29 March)
Thursday, 28 March (MATRIX, Minderbroederstraat 48):
9.30 - 11.00: Lied session 1, Schubert's "Trost" (D. 523)
11.00 - 12.30: Lied session 2, Schubert's "Schwanengesang" (D. 744)
14.30 - 16.00: Lied session 3, Liszt's "Die stille Wasserrose" (S. 321)
Friday, 29 March (MATRIX, Minderbroederstraat 48):
10.00 - 11.30: Sentence structure in Haydn's op. 76, no. 4, mov't II
11.30 - 13.00: Sentence structure in Haydn's op. 76, no. 4, mov't III
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UvA Lecture title:
Weber’s Rest
Abstract:
A curious rest appears in one of the hundreds of music examples that Gottfried Weber employed to make his case about how the ear comprehends the key of a musical passage or work and how modulation and key relations are to be understood. This rest ought to have signaled to Weber that something was amiss with his newly devised foundation for the major-minor system. Yet he tenaciously kept it in place, leaving numerous other gaps in numerous other examples and charts of chords and keys. Ultimately, it influences how he engaged in Roman numeral analysis—the analytical method which he is credited with refining. Similarly, the appearance of this rest restricts his notion of Mehrdeutigkeit (multiple meaning) in ways that are likely to be counterintuitive to modern listeners. The first part of my paper will explain the theoretical context of Weber’s rest, and the second part will investigate its analytical consequences and implications for a history of musical perception.