Boundaries, Space and Register in Beethoven’s Piano Music

MALCOLM MILLER is Honorary Associate and Associate Lecturer in Music at The Open University, UK, and Editor of Arietta, journal of the Beethoven Piano Society of Europe

• List of IllustrationsKey to Notational Conventions, Terminology and DiagramsForeword 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

With rigor and insight, Miller shows Beethoven probing sonic boundaries in his works while conveying a sense of the whole. He traces a provocative through-line in Beethoven, one that ultimately points beyond the earthly toward the celestial.