1st Edition
Webern’s Lost Cello Sonata and Music in the Aphoristic Style
Introduction 1 Music in the Aphoristic Style: Myths and Misconceptions 2 Webern’s Lost Cello Sonata – I: Harmony 3 Webern’s Lost Cello Sonata – II: Form 4 The Aphoristic Corpus: Symmetry, Ostinati, and Der musikalische Gedanke 5 Anxiety and Recomposition; or, Humanising Set Theory/Set Theorising Humanity
Biography
Rajan Lal is a Fellow in music at Trinity College, Cambridge. He completed all his studies at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge; a doctoral project, supervised by Nicholas Marston, examined scalar quality in Alexander Scriabin’s late works. To-date, research on Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, and on Scriabin’s mature sonatas has appeared in Music Theory Online, Music Analysis and Journal of the Royal Musical Association, respectively. In 2024, Rajan was elected a Trustee of the Society for Music Analysis; he also lectures on occasion for the Music Faculty in Cambridge.
