Viennese Solo Keyboard Music, 1740-1770
Author: Carla Pollack
Publisher:
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 742
ISBN-13:
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Haydn, Mozart, and the Viennese School, 1740-1780
Author: Daniel Heartz
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 844
ISBN-13: 9780393037128
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHistorians have long tried to place the music of Haydn and Mozart in the lineage of German Lutheran music. In this book, Daniel Heartz shows that the first Viennese school grew from a Catholic inheritance in Italian music and from local tradition, with an admixture of French currents. The generation of composers led by Haydn no longer trained in Italy. By the time young Mozart joined the ranks of the Viennese school, its accomplishments towered above all others of the time. The author's approach can be compared to viewing a majestic mountain range in its totality: the highest peaks take on even greater majesty when seen in their natural context of foothills and lesser peaks. This is how Haydn and Mozart were viewed by their contemporaries, whose world of perception Heartz recreates, using, among other things, the visual art of the period. His focus is on music as a part of cultural history at a particular time and place. Stylistic terms and a priori periods matter less to him than the common denominators of geography, culture, and political history. Book jacket.
The Life and Works of Gottlieb Muffat (1690-1770)
Author: Alison J. Dunlop
Publisher: Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag
Published: 2013-09-30
Total Pages: 601
ISBN-13: 3990120859
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGottlieb Muffat (1690-1770) has been heralded as one of the first composers of keyboard music to display 'distinctly Austrian traits'. In light of both the extent and quality of his œuvre, he was undoubtedly the single most important composer of keyboard music in Vienna in the first half of the eighteenth century. A prodigious child, he performed for the Emperor when he was around ten years old and his formative years were shaped by two of the most renowned composers of the period: his father Georg and Johann Joseph Fux. Muffat served as organist at the Viennese imperial court for over half a century and was responsible for teaching several members of the imperial family. This book explores both his career and quotidian existence and presents much hitherto unknown information about other members of this musical family. A thematic catalogue, which includes descriptions of all known manuscript sources of his music, comprises the second part of this study and serves to highlight the significance of his output and the reception and transmission of his work.
Music for Piano
Author: F. E. Kirby
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2023-09-21
Total Pages: 467
ISBN-13: 149308285X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis historical survey focuses on music for piano solo but also includes important compositions for piano duet and two pianos. Scholarly yet readable, it covers the entire repertoire from the Renaissance to the late 20th century and incorporates a bibliography of 1 100 sources for further study.
Haydn and the Classical Variation
Author: Elaine Rochelle Sisman
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780674383159
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSisman aims to demonstrate that it was Haydn's prophetic innovations that truly created the Classical variation. Her analysis reflects both the musical thinking of the Classical period and contemporary critical interests. The book offers a revaluation of t
Joseph Haydn's Keyboard Music: Sources and Style
Author: A. Peter Brown
Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips)
Published: 1986-10-22
Total Pages: 488
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Few musical repertoires have attracted such a convenient and thorough compendium of knowledge." —Early Music News "A. Peter Brown has performed an excellent service for devotees of early keyboard music, and for all students of eighteenth-century music . . . " —Early Keyboard Journal "A. Peter Brown has created a unique compendium, discussing all of Haydn's works with keyboard, comparing them and placing them in a variety of contexts, historical, social and scholarly." —Journal of the American Musicological Society " . . . stimulating . . . a book for which pianists . . . must be thankful." —Journal of the American Liszt Society Haydn scholar A. Peter Brown offers the first detailed and comprehensive study of the composer's keyboard works, encompassing the solo sonatas, keyboard trios, accompanied divertimentos, concertos, concertinos, and Klavierstücke.
Franz Joseph Haydn's Keyboard Sonatas
Author: James L. Taggart
Publisher:
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study deals with form and style in the Haydn sonatas, their comparative importance in the keyboard literature, and their aesthetic and pedagogical value.
The Pianist's Reference Guide
Author: Maurice Hinson
Publisher:
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 368
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThematic Catalogues in Music
Author: Barry S. Brook
Publisher: Pendragon Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 658
ISBN-13: 9780918728869
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1997, twenty-five years after its first publication, Thematic Catalogues in Music-An Annotated Bibliography (Pendragon Press, 1972) appeared in a completely revised and expanded Second Edition. It contains almost twice as many entries as its predecessor; virtually every one of the original entries has been updated; and the following noteworthy features have been added.1. A second introductory essay detailing trends and innovations in thematic cataloguing brought about by the revolution in technology of the past twenty years. 2. Appendices listing thematic catalogues in series; both by national organizations and publishers; a detailed up-to-date, country-by-country report of activities worldwide; a listing of major computerized databanks. 3. New double-column format. 4. Numerous illustrations and reproductions of pages from thematic catalogues of historical significance. The second edition continues the policy of listing all known thematic catalogues and indexes, including those in doctoral dissertations, masters essays, and computer databanks, as well as in-progress and unpublished works, plus reviews, and literature about thematic cataloguing. The original numbering of the 1972 entries has been retained, with new items appearing in proper alphabetical/chronological sequence but with the addition of decimal numbers and/or letters (363.1 or 960a). Lastly, the original historical introduction and special appendices of the first edition have been retained with emendations where needed.
Eighteenth-century Life
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Published: 1986
Total Pages: 476
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKEighteenth-Century Life looks at all aspects of European culture during the Enlightenment. It is an interdisciplinary publication and covers diverse topics-from picturesque sojourns into English gardens and grottoes to studies of eighteenth-century rhetorical principles and the powers of political discourse. In addition it features review essays and extensive listings of new books.
