Year: 1994
Type: article
Abstract: This paper discusses the circumstances that drew William Crotch into a highly specific and systematic compositional procedure, and describes how the severe material and procedural restrictions of his Introduction and Fugue on a Subject of Four Notes, no others being used all thro' the movement (ca. 1830) nevertheless permit the creation of a successful musical work on both intellectual and artistic scales. The analytical focus of the article is the manner in which Crotch establishes and deploys a varied content through a coherent and developmental design despite the self-imposed limitations.
Source: Music Theory Online
DOI: 10.30535/mto.0.10.1
Author: William Renwick
Institution: McMaster University
Language: English
Subfield: Music
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4392836802