Mendelssohn, time and memory : the romantic conception of cyclic form / Benedict Taylor.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Cover; Mendelssohn, Time and Memory; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 The idea of cyclic form; 1. End-orientated (circular) cyclic forms; 2. Non-end-orientated cyclic forms; 3. Combined- or single-movement cyclic forms; Historical context and development; The shape of history and historical self-consciousness; Subjectivity; Organicism; Origins and precursors of nineteenth-century cyclicism; Beethoven and Romantic cyclicism; Cyclic form in Mendelssohn's early works; 2 Musical history and self-consciousness: The Octet Op. 20.

Musical memory and self-consciousness: 'the Circuitous Journey'The Octet as a phenomenology of spirit; Cyclicism and the organic growth of material across the Octet; Organic growth: the first movement; Thematic connections between movements: the Andante and first movement; Cyclic recall: the finale; The Octet and musical history; Mendelssohn and Goethe; 'To me alone he told his secret', claimed Fanny:; 3 Returning home: The E major Piano Sonata Op. 6; The myth of the golden age; The Sonata in E major Op. 6; 4 In search of lost time: The A minor Quartet Op. 13; The A minor Quartet Op. 13.

Cyclic recurrence: the introduction-coda frameInternal thematic working and recall; Internal non-recurring variants; Cyclic recurring themes; Process of theme b; Development of theme a and the converging of both strands; The coda; Cyclical form and time; Ist es wahr? Interpretation and context; Opus 13 and Proust; 5 Overcoming the past: The E Quartet Op. 12; First movement; Later movements; Coda; 6 Cyclicism in Mendelssohn's mature music; The 'Reformation' Symphony (1830); Musical meaning and the challenge of instrumental music.

Cyclic form in Mendelssohn's 'middle-period' works and the question of intelligibilityMENDELSSOHN'S MATURE CYCLICISM; Symphony No. 3 in A minor ('Scottish') Op. 56; Cyclic themes and thematic connections between movements; Cyclic thematic manipulation and formal process: first movement; Interpretative issues: the 'Scottish' Symphony as overdetermined; Ruins and historical memory: the first movement; Rotations and cycles: the A major coda; Breakthrough and daybreak; Bibliography; Index.

An examination of cyclic form in Mendelssohn's instrumental music and its implications for conceptions of musical time, memory and history.

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