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Handel, the Sarabande, and Levels of Genre

1996; Society for Music Theory; Volume: 2; Issue: 7 Linguagem: Inglês

10.30535/mto.2.7.3

1067-3040

Channan Willner,

Historical Influence and Diplomacy

In his commentary on my article, “More on Handel and the Hemiola,” David Schulenberg favors a historically informed, intertextual approach to the analysis of relatively unfamiliar works, one that hinges on the listener’s knowledge of generically comparable works. By way of reply I combine recent semiotic theory with a more traditional Schenkerian approach to show how the narrative articulation of generic topics shapes the way we hear, interpret, and re-create such works, and how such articulation responds to tensions that are inherent in stylistic and generic norms.