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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

ISBN-100198163258

ISBN-139780198163251

eBay Product ID (ePID)91170

Product Key Features

Number of Pages454 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameHaydn's Keyboard Music : Studies in Performance Practice

Publication Year1997

SubjectHistory & Criticism, Genres & Styles / Classical, Instruction & Study / General, Printed Music / Piano & Keyboard Repertoire

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaMusic

AuthorBernard Harrison

SeriesOxford Monographs on Music Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight29.3 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

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Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN95-049505

Dewey Edition20

Reviews'written in a continuous and stylish prose which makes it a delight to read ... An excellent bibliography and index finish off the volume. It is highly recommended.'Harpsichord & fortepiano, Vol 9, No 1, Spring 2001'Harrison is always eager to examine every scrap of evidence in detail, spelling out his thought processes before arriving at cautious conclusions ... excellent book.'David Rowland, Early Music'this is an extremely valuable study ...'Early Music Review, 32, July 1997'If a choice must be limited ot one text on how to perform Haydn's keyboard music, the edge must go to Harrison's for its comprehensiveness, clarity and exclusive focus ... this is a valuable contribution to what will certainly be a continuing discussion of an elusive subject.'A. Peter Brown, Music and Letters'Harrison provides useful insights into the performance practices concerning Joseph Haydn's sonatas for keyboard instruments ... graduate students and faculty will find much of interest in this book.'W. E. Grim, CHOICE, 'written in a continuous and stylish prose which makes it a delight to read ... An excellent bibliography and index finish off the volume. It is highly recommended.'Harpsichord and fortepiano, Vol 9, No 1, Spring 2001, 'If a choice must be limited ot one text on how to perform Haydn's keyboard music, the edge must go to Harrison's for its comprehensiveness, clarity and exclusive focus ... this is a valuable contribution to what will certainly be a continuing discussion of an elusive subject.'A. Peter Brown, Music and Letters, "A major contribution to Hayden scholarship. Potential performers of the composer's keyboard music will find a commanding and well-documented exposition of the problems facing him or her; at the same time the volume will be of fundamental value to those interested in Haydn's music who are not primarily practitioners....Comprehensive and authoritative."--David Wyn Jones, 'Harrison provides useful insights into the performance practices concerning Joseph Haydn's sonatas for keyboard instruments ... graduate students and faculty will find much of interest in this book.'W. E. Grim, CHOICE, 'Harrison is always eager to examine every scrap of evidence in detail, spelling out his thought processes before arriving at cautious conclusions ... excellent book.'David Rowland, Early Music

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal786.1/43/092

SynopsisIn this first full-scale study of performance practice in Haydn's keyboard music, Bernard Harrison confronts the important issues facing any performer of Haydn's keyboard music, and at the same time develops some of the recurring controversial questions in broader research on Haydn's oeuvre. 'a major contribution to Haydn scholarship. Potential performers of the composer's keyboard music will find a commanding and well-documented exposition of the problems facing him or her; at the same time the volume will be of fundamental value to those interested in Haydn's music who are not primarily practitioners ... comprehensive and authoritative.' David Wyn Jones, In this first full-scale study of performance practice in Haydn's keyboard music, Bernard Harrison confronts the important issues facing any performer of this repertoire, and considers some of the recurring controversial questions in broader research on Haydn's oeuvre ., 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'., 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'.

LC Classification NumberML410.H4H315 1997