Analyzing Amy Beach's Quintet in F# minor, mvt 1, op 67 - A 20th Century Sonata Form

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This video is my analysis of the first movement of Amy Beach’s Piano Quintet in F# minor Op. 67. I discuss the justifications for analyzing a 20th century piece of music using techniques which are more often applied to the 18th century, chromatic harmonies, Type 3 - Type 2 Conversions, and some brief information on Beach’s life.
Timeline
00:23 Introduction and Background on Amy Beach
05:11 Analysis Begins - Slow Introduction
10:00 The Primary Theme
20:22 Rotation 2
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Sources
Analytical Approaches to Chromaticism in Amy Beach's Piano Quintet in F # Minor - Rose Flatt, appeared in Indiana Theory Review, SPRING, 1981, Vol. 4, No. 3 (SPRING, 1981), pp. 41-58
Amy Beach: Passionate Victorian - Adrienne Fried Block
Cambridge Companion to Amy Beach, edited by E. Douglas Bomberger
Chapter 7 by R. Larry Todd used in video
Elements of Sonata Theory - James Hepokoski and Warren Darcy
Grove Entry for Amy Beach written by Adrienne Fried Block, revised by E. Douglas Bomberger
doi.org/10.1093/gmo/978156159...
Grove Entry for the Second New England School, written by Charles S. Freeman doi.org/10.1093/gmo/978156159...
Schubert's Promissory Note: An Exercise in Musical Hermeneutics - Edward T. Cone, appeared in 19th-Century Music , Spring, 1982, Vol. 5, No. 3 (Spring, 1982), pp. 233-241
The Quintet for Piano and Strings, Op. 67 by Amy Beach: A Historical and Analytical Investigation - Tammie Leigh Walker (dissertation)
www.ideals.illinois.edu/items...
The Violin Sonata of Amy Beach - Yu-Hsien Judy Hung (dissertation)
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[@jestemqiqi7647]

Thank you for this analysis and also for introducing us to a lesser-known composer. It was highly interesting to follow you along and I think your arguments for this being a Type 2 Sonata as well as applying sonata theory to more chromatic, 20th-century classical music are very sensible and convincing. I myself am frequently astonished how useful this theoretical framework, which was created to analyse music of the 18th and 19th centuries is for analysing e.g. the music of Dmitri Shostakovich, who wrote well-structured and compelling sonata-form movements up to the end of his life in the 1970s.

[@sonatahewrote]

Thanks, im glad you enjoyed it! And yes I agree, especially about Shostakovich. The theory has a lot of uses passed the 18th and 19th centuries