Lauri Suurpaeae is Professor of Music Theory at the Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki. He is author of Death in Winterreise: Musico-Poetic Associations in Schubert's Song Cycle (IUP, 2014).
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Preface Acknowledgments Part I: Public and Private Modes of Musical Discourse 1. Introduction 2. Elements of Private and Public Modes of Musical Discourse 3. Musical Patterns and Conventions: Public Recognition and Private Interpretation Part II: Analysis of Individual Movements 4. Primary Theme and Exposition: Opening Movements of Symphony No. 104, and Symphony No. 97 5. Slow Movements: Symphony No. 93, and String Quartet, Op. 76, No. 1 6. Finales: Symphony No. 96, and String Quartet, Op. 76, No. 5 7. First Movement: String Quartet, Op. 71, No. 1 8. Punctuation and Continuity: The First Movements of Haydn's Symphony No. 93, and Mozart's Symphony No. 39 9. Three Contexts for Analyzing Haydn's Late Instrumental Music References Index
"While it fits into the ongoing wave of interest in musical form in the late eighteenth century, there also is no existing book that is quite like it. I will read it, and use it in my research and teaching, as will, I am convinced, many others."-Steven Vande Moortele, author of The Romantic Overture and Musical Form from Rossini to Wagner "[Suurpaeae] is obviously in command of an vast array of different analytical approaches and his mastering is impressive. The book is extremely well researched, and very up-to-date. Most major contemporary analytical approaches are masterfully dealt with, and put into dialogue with the difficult problem of historically informed analysis."-Giorgio Sanguinetti, author of The Art of Partimento: History, Theory, and Practice