The Solo Piano Sonata in the United States Since 1945: A Survey Page: 7
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to view the structure of a sonata apart from tonality.
Hans Keller in an article for The Music Review, February,
1961, wrote that the sonata exists independently of an
atonal or tonal label. Its distinguishing feature, rather,
is the "large-scale integration of thematic contrasts."13
After all, did not the Romantic composers seize upon the
idea of thematic transformation as a way of unifying the
sonata, and was it not this feature that gave the sonata
whatever life it had during the last half of the nineteenth
century? It would seem, therefore, that the thematic
structure of the sonata is at least as important as the
tonal scheme, if not more so.
With this possibility in mind and with the recognition
that composers continue to employ "sonata" as a title, a
study of the contemporary sonata seems both useful and
valid.13Ibid., p. 52.
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Edge, Rebecca Jane. The Solo Piano Sonata in the United States Since 1945: A Survey, thesis, May 1971; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc663739/m1/11/: accessed June 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .