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 …

As Robert Schumann put it,'Only few works are as clearly stamped with their author's imprint
as his'. This book explores Schubert's stylistic traits in a series of chapters each discussing …

At the center of this study is a desire to understand better the distinct temporal quality
expressed in the first movement of Schubert's late G-Major Quartet, D. 887. This movement …

This article explores the relationship between tonal structure and formal design in three-key
expositions. The approach proposed here centers on a multidimensional analysis that can …

Generally speaking, variation sets in the Classical period are characterised primarily by
embellishment and change of texture, effected so as to create a multitude of views of the …

Few expositional procedures have permitted so diverse a repertoire of form-functional
explanations as the three-key exposition. Ever since Felix Salzer coined the term, theorists …

Schubert's sonata forms often seem to be animated by some hidden process that breaks to
the surface at significant moments, only to subside again as suddenly and enigmatically as it …

This study of Franz Schubert's settings of poetry by Friedrich Schlegel and Novalis
introduces the fascinating world of early German Romanticism in the 1790s, when an …

Repetition has long been a focal point of both critiques and scholarly inquiries of Schubert's
instrumental music. Casting repetition as redundant, critics condemned his instrumental …

The idea of the dream as a longed-for alternative to reality imbues many of Schubert's finest
sonata forms with what Charles Rosen has isolated as the tragedy of Romantic memory, the …