Vibrant Keyboard Sonorities The Solo Keyboard Sonata A History in Seven Volumes

Vibrant Keyboard Sonorities The Solo Keyboard Sonata A History in Seven Volumes

Author: Robert M. White, M.D.

Publisher: Dorrance Publishing

Published: 2023-05-03

Total Pages: 399

ISBN-13:

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About the Book The purpose of Vibrant Keyboard Sonorities is to provide a comprehensive, critical evaluation, and appreciation of the 450-year history of the keyboard sonata. This history should be of interest to all those who are musicians, music historians and lovers of Classical music. This subject will be of great interest and relevance to all music lovers. Also, these volumes will serve as reference works and would be excellent introductory textbooks for college-level music students. This source of comprehensive information about the keyboard sonata is fully available through this book alone. This is the first text of its nature with information that is not fully available in one source elsewhere. About the Author Robert M. White, M.D. is a retired pathologist who pursues several hobbies and interests outside of medicine. His hobbies include playing the piano, long distance running, and avid reading. He is actively involved in his church and in several community service-oriented organizations. His real passion is Classical music, and for more than fifty years, he has been a serious student of Classical music in all of its forms. Dr. White is the author of two recently published reference books: Sounding Together: A History of the Symphony (2019) and Performing Together: A History of the Keyboard Concerto (2021). His playing of the piano since childhood has afforded his extensive knowledge of piano literature.


All Music Guide to Classical Music

All Music Guide to Classical Music

Author: Chris Woodstra

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 1620

ISBN-13: 9780879308650

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Offering comprehensive coverage of classical music, this guide surveys more than eleven thousand albums and presents biographies of five hundred composers and eight hundred performers, as well as twenty-three essays on forms, eras, and genres of classical music. Original.


The Four and the One

The Four and the One

Author: David Rounds

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13:

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Spotlighting the four women of the Lafayette Quartet, a leading Canadian ensemble, Rounds offers both a comprehensive history of the beloved instrumental form and an inside view of the complex world of professional quartet players, revealing the exultation and heatache that are the performing artists' daily fare. A treat for every music lover, whether player, listener or composer.


Mozart's Music of Friends

Mozart's Music of Friends

Author: Edward Klorman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-04-21

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 1107093651

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This study analyzes chamber music from Mozart's time within its highly social salon-performance context.


The Critical Reception of Beethoven's Compositions by His German Contemporaries

The Critical Reception of Beethoven's Compositions by His German Contemporaries

Author: Wayne M. Senner

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 1999-05-25

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9780803212503

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Compiled here are reviews, reports, notes, and essays found in German-language periodicals published between 1783 and 1830. The documents are translated into English with copious notes and annotations, an introductory essay, and indexes of names, subjects, and works. This volume contains a general section and documents on specific opus numbers up to opus 54, with musical examples redrawn from the original publications. ΓΈ The collection brings to light contemporary perceptions of Beethoven?s music, including matters such as audience, setting, facilities, orchestra, instruments, and performers as well as the relationship of Beethoven?s music to theoretical and critical ideas of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. These documents, most of which appear in English for the first time, present a wide spectrum of insights into the perceptions that Beethoven?s contemporaries had of his monumental music.


The Spectral Piano

The Spectral Piano

Author: Marilyn Nonken

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-03-13

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1107018544

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Marilyn Nonken finds precedent in the works of pianist-composers Liszt, Scriabin and Debussy for spectral attitudes towards the musical experience.


Engaging Haydn

Engaging Haydn

Author: Mary Kathleen Hunter

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-07-12

Total Pages: 363

ISBN-13: 1107015146

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Haydn is enjoying renewed appreciation: this book explores fresh approaches to his music and the cultural forces affecting it.