Le 1er juillet 2017
de 14h30 à 15h00
Le Patio (université de Strasbourg)
22 rue René Descartes, 67000 Strasbourg
amphithéâtre 4
Séance - Approaches to Schubert's Sonata Forms
Pré-acte / Acte
Auteur : Yi Eun Chung
Schubert’s late works convey a sense of time not only through its chronologically attuned label ‘late’, but also in their disjunctive and non-teleological tonal and formal procedures. The secondary theme area is vastly expanded, creating a sense of timelessness – recalling Schumann’s famous description of the C-major Symphony’s “heavenly length.” Furthermore, the lyrical secondary theme constantly returns after deviations within the secondary theme area, as if functioning as a point of reference or signpost on the seemingly endless, goalless path. In this paper, I will investigate Schubert’s expanded secondary theme in terms of a temporal process wherein the lyrical secondary theme returns again and again, creating multiple direction of time. The cyclic nature of the secondary theme will be examined for the possibility of reading Schubert’s secondary theme area as an “inner cycle embedded within a sonata-form trajectory.” Additionally, in the tripartite tonal structure of the expositional and recapitulatory rotations, the minimized role of the closing zone – almost merely varied repetition of the secondary theme, when viewed from the perspective of Sonata Theory – complicates further the cyclic nature of the secondary theme area, which challenges the sonata teleology eventually.
