[Smt-talk] vocal sonata forms

[Nicole Biamonte]

See also: Daniel Jacobson, "Sonata Form as a Dramatic and Unifying Force in
Mozart's Vocal Music," Mozart-Jahrbuch 1993.

Nicole Biamonte
McGill University


On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 6:14 AM, Locke, Ralph <rlocke at esm.rochester.edu>wrote:

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> The whole question of how _much_ sonata form influenced the structure of
> operatic numbers is a fascinating one.
>
> Charles Rosen has a chapter on "arias," as I recall, in his Sonata Forms
> book.  Maybe only in the revised version, which not all libraries own.
>
> I used to use arias by Dittersdorf and Grétry to make this very point, in
> my undergrad Classic-Romantic music-history course here at Eastman.
>
> ==
> Dittersdorf: Doktor und Apotheker, aria "Verliebte brauchen keine Zeugen"
> (which I initially found in the History of Music in Sound series of LPs that
> were produced to coordinate with the Oxford History of Music)
>
> Grétry: Richard Coeur de Lion, aria "Si l'univers entier m'oublie"
> (ditto--which suggests to me that maybe they were discussed in regard to
> sonata form in the respective volume of OHM, or why else would two s-f arias
> have ended up in the anthology?).
> ==
>
> As I recall, the three main sections of music coordinate directly with the
> strophic divisions of the text (though differently in the two arias).
>
> I don't recall if there is a discussion of this kind of repertoire (opera
> arias and ensembles) in Hepokoski/Darcy book on Sonata Theory.
>
> The topic surely invites further study!
> Ralph Locke
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> Subject: [Smt-talk] vocal sonata forms
>
> I'm looking for compositions for voice written in sonata form - either solo
> voice(s)
> with accompaniment or choir with or without accompaniment.  The only works
> I've
> been able to find so far are those listed in the Groves entry on sonata
> form:
> Mozart, "Ah taci ingiusto cora" from Don Giovanni;  Haydn, "With Verdure
> Clad"
> from The Creation;  Beethoven, Benedictus from Missa Solemnis;  and Brahms,
> "Ihr
> habt nun Traurigkeit" from the German Requiem.  Does anyone know of any
> more?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Peter Silberman
> Ithaca College
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