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admin — Tue, 30 May 2017 23:18:35 +0000

Thanks for the comment, Rimas! I agree, there are lots of paths leading to and fro from music and literature. How helpful we can be to each other . . .

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Rimas Blekaitis — Tue, 30 May 2017 20:14:34 +0000

oops some typos above, oh well…

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Rimas Blekaitis — Tue, 30 May 2017 20:13:59 +0000

Loved the post and I very much look forward to reading more of the work mentioned. What is called “Sonata form” and the basic form of the modern novel as it arose in the late 18th, early 19th century seems to have played on each other. The writers of those novels would’ve been listening to Mozart, Haydn et al, and many of those composers would’ve been reading novels (assuming they could afford them!) So a kind of cross-pollination would’ve been inevitable, I would think. (There was a very fine student lecture on a topic like this back in my first residency at VCFA.) One of the best explanations of sonata form I’ve found is a series of lectures on Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas (note that “sonata form” has nothing to do with whether or not a piece is actually called a “sonata”). These were “Great Courses” lectures I could get at the public library on CD (and somewhat to my surprise, a lot of people were grabbing that particular set of lectures. ) Beethoven took great pleasure in deconstructing the Sonata form and creating myriad new forms from it, much like many writers like to play with forms themselves…(The first few cds in those lectures are really worth a listen.)

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