"You must remember this": Memory and structure in Schubert's String Quartet in G major, D. 887

Musical Quarterly

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 582-603

  Frisch, Walter ^a  

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DOI: 10.1093/mq/84.4.582     Document Type: Article

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2. Peter Brooks, Reading for the Plot (New York: Knopf, 1984), 11
3. Cited in Thomas Butler, "Memory: A Mixed Blessing," in Memory: History, Culture, and the Mind, ed. Thomas Butler (Oxford: Blackwell, 1989), 13
4. Arnold Schoenberg, Fundamentals of Musical Composition, ed. Gerald Strang and Leonard Stein (New York: St. Martin's, 1967), chaps. 5 and 8
5. Harold Truscott, "Schubert's String Quartet in G major," Music Review 20 (1959): 129
6. Carl Dahlhaus, "Sonata Form in Schubert: The First Movement of the G-Major String Quartet, op. 161 (D. 887)," trans. by Thilo Reinhard, in Schubert: Critical and Analytical Studies, ed. Walter Frisch (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1986), 8
7. Henri Bergson, Matter and Memory, trans. Nancy Margaret Paul and W. Scott Palmer (New York: Zone Books, 1988), 78
8. On the memory models of classical antiquity, see esp. Francis Yates, The Art of Memory (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1966), chap. 1
9. and Mary Carruthers, The Book of Memory (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), chap. 1
10. See the discussion of this episode in Daniel Schacter, Searching for Memory: The Brain, the Mind, and the Past (New York: Basic Books, 1996), 26-28
11. Schacter, Searching for Memory
12. Edward T. Cone, The Composer's Voice (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1974)
13. Carl Dahlhaus, Ludwig van Beethoven: Approaches to His Music, trans. Mary Whittall (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991), 31
14. and Edward T. Cone, "Schubert's Promissory Note: An Exercise in Musical Hermeneutics," in Schubert: Critical and Analytical Studies, ed. Walter Frisch (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1986), 13-30
15. Susan McClary, "Constructions of Subjectivity in Schubert's Music," in Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology, ed. Philip Brett, Elizabeth Wood, and Gary Thomas (London and New York: Routledge, 1994), 205-33
16. Poundie Burstein, "Lyricism, Structure, and Gender in Schubert's G Major String Quartet," Musical Quarterly 81, no. 1 (1997): 51-63
17. and John Gingerich, "Schubert's Beethoven Project: The Chamber Music, 1824-1828" (Ph.D. diss., Yale University, 1996)
18. Judy Gillett, "The Problem of Schubert's G Major String Quartet (D. 887)," Music Review 35 (1974): 286
19. Maurice Brown, Schubert: A Critical Biography (New York: Da Capo, 1966), 240
20. See the analysis by Renate Hilmar-Voigt, "Die Episode im Finale des Streichquartetts G-Dur D 887 von 1826," in Franz Schubert: Der Fortschrittliche? Analysen, Perspektiven, Fakten, ed. Erich Wolfgang Partsch (Tutzing: Schneider, 1989), 159-70
21. For a fine discussion of the role of memory in the late works of Beethoven, see Elaine R. Sisman, "Memory and Invention at the Threshold of Beethoven's Late Style," in Beethoven and His World, ed. Scott Burnham and Michael P. Steinberg (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000), 51-87
22. Lawrence Kramer, "Revenants: Masculine Thresholds in Schubert, James, and Freud," Modern Language Quarterly 57 (1996): 449-77
23. On the role of recollection in the A-Major sonata, see William Kinderman, "Schubert's Piano Music: Probing the Human Condition," in The Cambridge Companion to Schubert, ed. Christopher Gibbs (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), 162-64
24. See especially Charles Rosen, The Romantic Generation (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1995), chap. 3
25. and Richard Kramer, Distant Cycles: Schubert and the Conceiving of Song (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994), chaps. 3 and 4
26. Aleida Assmann, "Die Wunde der Zeit: Wordsworth und die romantische Erinnerung," in Memoria: Vergessen und Erinnern, ed. Anselm Haverkamp and Renate Lachmann (Munich: Fink, 1993), 359
27. see Geoffrey Hartman, Wordsworth's Poetry, 1787-1814 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964), esp. 211-19