Le 1er juillet 2017
de 15h00 à 15h30
Le Patio (université de Strasbourg)
22 rue René Descartes, 67000 Strasbourg
salle 3208
Séance - Analytical Methodologies and the Music of the 17th Century
Pré-acte / Acte
Auteur : Stephen Slottow
François Couperin’s keyboard miniature La Flore (Fifth Ordre, 1713), is beautiful, restrained, and austere. It is also curiously static, an impression that, I am convinced, derives from the persistently repeated motive E-F#-G-(F#-G#)-A-G-F-E. In addition, a case can be made for an over-arching version that embraces the individual instances and covers almost the entire piece. This paper considers the following aspects: (1) the role of the motive and how it functions in its different harmonic and voice-leading contexts; (2) whether or not there is a coda; (3) how the opening measures both set up the motive and relate to the closing measures; (4) the somewhat circuitous route to the mediant; and (5) the awkwardness of fitting the motive (which moves from scale degrees 5 to 8 and back again) within an Urlinie structure which descends to 1. Thus I will compare my interpretation with an alternate reading by Charles Burkhart which uses David Neumeyer’s ascending-Urlinie and three-voice Ursatz model.
