Title: History and Theory of Traditional European Tonal Music: Formal functions for phrase, theme, and small forms, following William E. Caplin, Classical Form: A Theory of Formal Functions for the Instrumental Music of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven (Oxford University Press, 1998), summary and examples with related information and data on dance musics and their performance in the same period.
Link: Dance Designs.
Abstract: A study of harmony and formal functions in dance music of the 18th and early 19th centuries. The data and analyses are also intended to supplement the form theory presented in William E. Caplin, Classical Form: A Theory of Formal Functions for the Instrumental Music of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998). Classical Form discusses the different movement types one encounters in the Classical sonata, quartet, and symphony, but because of the meticulous attention given to small-scale, theme units, the theory is also very well-suited to style studies of dance musics.
Keywords: William Caplin, Formenlehre, musical form, social dance, contradance, contredanse, Laendler, Ländler, Mozart, Hummel, Beethoven
