Boundaries, Space and Register in Beethoven's Piano Music

List of Illustrations
Key to Notational Conventions, Terminology and Diagrams
Foreword by Barry Cooper

Introduction

PART 1: Sonic Space Explorations: Concepts and Contexts
1. Register in the Analytical Literature: Limitations and Possibilities
2. The Analysis of Space and Register: Concepts and Methods
3. New Methods of Spatial Analysis in Action
4. Beethoven's Fortepianos and the Expansion of Range

PART 2: Shaping Sonic Space in Ternary, Rondo and Variation Forms
5. Shaping Space in the Seven Bagatelles Op. 33
6. Spatial Expansion in Beethoven's Piano Variations I: The 'Dressler' (1782) to Op.34 (1802)
7. Spatial Expansion in Beethoven's Piano Variations II: The 'Eroica' Op. 35 (1802) to the 'Diabelli' Op. 120 (1819-23)

PART 3: Spatial Strategies in Multi-movement Sonatas
8. Space and Boundary in the 'Grande Sonate Pathétique' Op.13
9. Depth and Spatial Dialogue in Op. 27/ 1 & 2 and Op. 28
10. Spatial Narratives of Drama and Wit: Op. 31/2 - 3
11. Stretching Space and Breaking Boundaries I: Sonata in C Op. 53 'Waldstein'
12. Stretching Space and Breaking Boundaries II: Sonata in F minor Op. 57 'Appassionata'
13. Registral Pairs: Sonata in F Op. 54; Sonata in F¿ Op. 78
14. Space and Narrative: Sonata in E flat Op. 81 'Les Adieux'

PART 4: Beethoven's Late Style and the Symbolism of Space
15. Space and Transcendence in the Late Piano Sonatas, Opp. 106, 109, 110, 111
16. Space and cyclic form in the Six Bagatelles I: Op. 126/1-3
17. Space and cyclic form in the Six Bagatelles II: Op.126/4-6
18. Epilogue: Towards a Theory of Space and Register

Bibliography
Index