Sonata Fragments

“An effort to expand sonata theory more solidly into the nineteenth-century repertoire.” — Notes In Sonata Fragments , Andrew Davis argues that the Romantic sonata is firmly rooted, both formally and expressively, in its Classical forebears, using Classical conventions in order to convey a broad constellation of Romantic aesthetic values. This claim runs contrary to conventional theories of the Romantic sonata that place this nineteenth-century musical form squarely outside inherited Classical s