[Smt-talk] vocal sonata forms

[clemens kemme]

Dear Deborah Burton, Nicole Biamonte, and list,

Thank you for your reaction, Deborah. But I did't mean Idomeneo is almost
completely Type 2. I have found:
- 6 numbers of Type 1 (no development section): Nos. 1, 2, 3, 7, 11, 13,
(The Overture is also Type 1, aborted though)
- 5 of Type 2 ('Scarlatti sonata'): Nos. 4, 21, 27a, 29a, 31, (No. 8 March
is also Type 2)
- 5 of Type 3 ('textbook sonata' incl. development): Nos. 10a, 12, 19, 22,
30a (Allegretto 'Trio' as 'devel.').

Osmin's first aria in Entführung is indeed Type 2, followed by a coda in
which Mozart famously lets him lose his temper/key ('but not too far away',
Mozart wrote to his father). A great example of the dramatic power (and
maybe origin) of 'sonata form' and of unexpected deviations!

Thank you, Nicole, for mentioning an article I didn't know yet, that seems
to make exactly the same point.

>From other reactions, and also from what I often meet in Europe, it seems
that not too many theorists are aware of this. Could that have to do with
music theory's long history of focussing almost exclusively on instrumental
music, and on first movements? See labels like 'first-movement form', a term
that would have amazed Mozart, who composed most of his second movements and
so many of his vocal pieces in this form as well. Any reactions?

Clemens Kemme
Conservatorium van Amsterdam


Van: Deborah Burton <burtond at bu.edu>
Beantwoorden - Aan: <burtond at bu.edu>
Datum: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 16:16:43 -0400
Aan: clemens kemme <ckemme at xs4all.nl>
Onderwerp: Re: [Smt-talk] vocal sonata forms

   I second Clemens that Idomeneo is almost completely Type 2 sonata forms
(HD), as is Osmin's first aria in Entführung.
 
 Deborah Burton
 Boston University
 burtond at bu.edu
 
 On 10/16/11 5:40 AM, clemens kemme wrote:
>   Re: [Smt-talk] vocal sonata forms Dear Peter,
>  
>  'Sonata form' being developed in the middle of the 18th century as (or at
> least simultaneously with) 'opera seria aria form', a large majority of opera
> seria arias, fast and slow, can serve as examples. Be prepared to find all
> typical 18th-century varieties (see Hepokosky & Darcy's taxonomy):
>  1. binary sonata without development (retransition instead)
>  2. binary sonata with recap only from second theme/key area onwards (merging
> development and recap of theme 1)
>  3. ternary sonata, with development ('textbook sonata form')
>  All of these mostly mixed with elements we also know from 'concerto form':
> orchestral introduction (longer of shorter, introducing one ore more of the
> main themes), cadential tuttis ('ritornellos') closing exposition and
> recapitulation, the latter interrupted by a cadenza. (I guess H & D would
> label these 5.1, 5.2 and 5.3.)
>  
>  The entire early vocal work of Mozart is a true gold mine, both operas
> (seria) and sacred work. Check e.g. Idomeneo (almost all numbers), the Kyrie
> in d, K 341, the Glorias of the Masses K. 317 and 337. From the Mass in c, K
> 427: 'Laudamus te', 'Quoniam', 'Et incarnatus est', and 'Benedictus'. But also
> many of Die Entführung's arias (Nos. 3, 6, 7, 10, 11, 17)  are in sonata form.
> Less so in the later operas where Mozart developed his new ensemble technique.
>  
>  Good luck!
>  
>  Clemens Kemme
>  Conservatorium van Amsterdam
>  
>  
>  
>>  > Van: <psilberman at ithaca.edu> <mailto:psilberman at ithaca.edu>
>>  > Datum: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:58:22 -0400 (EDT)
>>  > Aan: <smt-talk at lists.societymusictheory.org>
>> <mailto:smt-talk at lists.societymusictheory.org>
>>  > Onderwerp: [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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