›Unendliche Melodie‹. Aufbereitung einer Chiffre zu einer Kategorie der Wagner-Analyse by Ariane Jeßulat

“…Understanding the term through the filter of Ernst Kurth’s writings on Bach and Wagner, as he did in his late essay »Wagner und Bach«, Dahlhaus succeeds to work out fruitful categories for music analysis combining Kurth’s aesthetical premises with a pointed comparison between the Parsifal-Vorspiel and the fugue in f#-minor WC II BWV 883. …”
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Das zweifelnde Gehör. Erwartungssituationen als Module im Rahmen einer performativen Analyse tonaler und posttonaler Musik by Christian Utz

“…Starting from a review of listening expectancy and recollection in the history of music analysis and aesthetics (Weber, Hanslick, Adorno) as well as more recent reception-oriented theoretical systems (in particular Hepokoski’s and Darcy’s Sonata Theory), this essay probes the role of ›expectancy situations‹ within the framework of a ›performative‹ analytical method, applied to both tonal and posttonal music. …”
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