Music theory Ph.D. candidate Stephen Gomez-Peck to present a paper entitled “(Hyper)metrical Games in Schubert’s Early Piano Sonatas”, at the upcoming 2020 Joint Meeting of the SMT and the AMS.

About: While scholars have long recognized and engaged with rhythmic and metric virtuosity and playfulness in the music of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, there is little such engagement to be found with the music of one of their Viennese heirs: Franz Schubert. Building off recent theoretical and analytical work in rhythm and meter scholarship, this paper explores metrical games–like obscuring of the barline–in three of Schubert’s piano sonatas from the years 1817–18.

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