1st Edition
Schubert's Workshop: Volume 1 Towards an Early Maturity
Schubert’s Workshop offers a fresh study of the composer’s compositional technique and its development, rooted in the author’s experience of realising performing versions of Franz Schubert’s unfinished works. Through close examination of Schubert’s use of technical and structural devices, Brian Newbould demonstrates that Schubert was much more technically innovative than has been supposed, and argues that the composer’s technical discoveries constitute a rich legacy of specific influences on later composers. Providing rich new insights into the creative practice of one of the major figures of classical music, this two-volume study reframes our understanding of Schubert as an innovator who constantly pushed at the frontiers of style and expression.
Chapter 1: Tools
Chapter 2: Apprenticeship
Chapter 3: Theme
Chapter 4: Devices
Chapter 5: Counterpoint
Chapter 6: Harmonic Strategy
Chapter 7: The Diminished Seventh
Chapter 8: The Augmented Sixth
Chapter 9: Harmonic Fingerprints
Chapter 10: Dissonance
Chapter 11: Major and Minor
Chapter 12: The Cadential Six-Four
Chapter 13: The Stepping Bass
Chapter 14: Phraseology
Chapter 15: Texture
Chapter 16: Concerto?
Chapter 17: Orchestration
Chapter 18: The Excursion
Chapter 19: The Bohemian Sixth and a Matter of Legacy
Chapter 20: The Tonally-enriched Exposition
Chapter 21: Metrical Concerns
Chapter 22: The Back-Bonded Third Bar
Chapter 23: Triads and Tonics
Biography
Brian Newbould is a musicologist whose completions of several unfinished symphonies and other works by Schubert are played, broadcast and recorded worldwide. He has lectured in the North and South Americas, the Antipodes, and across Europe and Scandinavia. Schubert’s Workshop is his third book on this composer.
