HARMONIEMUSIK AS A MUSICAL TOPIC IN THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ORCHESTRA

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Abstract

The existence of musical topics in eighteenth-century instrumental music has been firmly established by scholars such as Leonard Ratner, Kofi Agawu, Wye Allanbrook, James Webster , and Raymond Monelle. Although effects like word painting and text expression may be more obvious in some overtly pictorial Baroque compositions or programmatic Romantic works, Galant-era compositions also contain many topical associations and are as imitative as in any period. Allan brook sums it up aptly, "Yet the music of the Classic style is pervasively mimetic, not of Nature itself but of our naturesof the world of men , their habits and actions." Ratner, Allan brook , Agawu, and Monelle have cited common topics, which are assembled in figure 1. There are certainly other topics that arise in analysis, but this is a list of the most frequently discussed in the literature.

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