Dvořák’s chamber music has received surprisingly little attention from Anglo-American music theorists of the modern era, despite a well-established place in the concert repertoire. Close readings of ...

Swann, one of the main characters in the novel, is a rich young man living in Paris who is connected with the highest Parisian aristocracy. At a musical soirée one evening he hears a sonata played by ...

No two of Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas are alike. Even more than in his string quartets, which similarly span his creative life, he seemed to make new strides in form and motivic development in each ...

When teaching listening skills to my music appreciation students at Colorado Mountain College, I notice that sonata form, the pinnacle of the classical-era obsession with formal elements in music, is ...

In 1919, Rebecca Clarke’s Viola Sonata tied for first place in a major competition—but when the judges saw her name, they couldn’t believe a woman had written something so bold and powerful. Some even ...