ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 24|6 pages
The ‘Wanderer’ Fantasy
chapter 25|15 pages
The Late Trios and Structural Serendipity
chapter 26|5 pages
The Diabelli Variation
chapter 27|7 pages
Symmetries
chapter 28|3 pages
Segmentation
chapter 30|9 pages
Open Cycles
chapter 31|15 pages
Counterpoint in Late Schubert
chapter 32|15 pages
Aspects of Quartet Thinking
chapter 33|21 pages
Thought for Four Without Forethought?
chapter 34|6 pages
Productivity, Improvisation, Process and Genre
part |116 pages
Unfinished Business