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Haydn's Keyboard Music: Studies in Performance Practice

By Bernard Harrison

Book information

Publisher
Clarendon Press
Year
1997
ISBN
1383007683, 0198163258, 9780198163251, 9781383007688
DOI
10.1093/oso/9780198163251.001.0001
LCC
ML410.H4 H315 1997
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
23 MB (23877702 bytes)
Series
Oxford Monographs on Music
Edition
1
Pages
457\457
Topic
Art Music
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2024-10-20 08:37:57

Description

In this comprehensive study of performance practice in Haydn's keyboard music, Bernard Harrison confronts the important issues facing any performer of Haydn's keyboard music. He deals with the full range of Haydn's keyboard work - concertos, divertimenti, concertini, trios, Klavierstücke, and sonatas - and emphasizes the connection between performance practice and compositional style. He addresses many of the most controversial issues in recent research on the performance practice of eighteenth- century music, and takes a stance on some of the recurring controversies in Haydn research. Haydn's ornamentation is treated in four extensive chapters which range over Haydn's changing notational practices, the large corpus of 18th-century theoretical information on performance, and an examination of the music itself. Other issues in performance are elucidated in wide-ranging discussions, and Harrison presents new evidence on the question of the influence of C.P.E. Bach on Haydn. He surveys broader aspects of interpretation, commenting sympathetically but critically on the phenomenon of ‘early music’.

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