Le 29 juin 2017
de 16h30 à 17h00
Le Patio (université de Strasbourg)
22 rue René Descartes, 67000 Strasbourg
amphithéâtre 5
Séance précomposée - Analyzing Models and Creativity in the Long Eighteenth Century
Pré-acte / Acte
Auteur : Nicholas Baragwanath
Haydn’s music forms a significant part of the core repertoire for analyses that draw upon Gjerdingen’s theory of Galant-style schemata (2007). According to this theory, Haydn’s music can be understood to consist of chains of more or less normative schemata, which interact with tonal and formal frameworks regarded as conventional for their time and place. In this paper, I investigate the application of conventional schemata in Haydn’s Quartet Op. 33/2 (1781), in search of a hermeneutic interpretation plausibly supported by music analysis. By pairing schemata with topic theory and sociolinguistics, I explore various levels of meaning. The schemata evident in the string quartet will be set in dialogic relation to contemporary norms, to establish degrees of correspondence and variance. Questions will be asked about apparently incorrect schemata and answers will be sought in topic theory and sociolinguistics. Haydn’s Op.33/2 appears to indulge in a musical kind of social critique. Identifying deformations to conventional schemata and considering them in relation to topics, styles, and accents, may offer a method for supporting hermeneutic interpretations of eighteenth-century music through analysis.
