Fortepianos And Their Music

Author : Katalin Komlós
Publisher : Oxford Monographs on Music
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015033340020

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Fortepianos and Their Music by Katalin Komlós Pdf

Eighteenth-century pianos shaped and influenced the music that was written for them. However, although organological studies probe the instrument in ever more detail, and musical criticism focuses increasingly on the musical repertoire, the relationship between the two has not been properly examined. This book concentrates on the keyboard writing of the last third of the eighteenth century, as inspired by the fundamentally different constructions of the German/Viennese and the English pianoforte. The highly articulated languages of Mozart and his Viennese contemporaries, and the more robust, pre-romantic style of Duzzek and his London colleagues reflect the very characteristics of these respective instruments. Beyond the scrutiny of the music, attention is given also to the players. The differentiation between professionals and amateurs is addressed, and contemporary sources help provide a description of late eighteenth-century performing styles; such a survey offers new insight into the living art of the pianoforte during a most important period in its history.

Author : Simon P. Keefe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2003-05-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521001927

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The Cambridge Companion to Mozart by Simon P. Keefe Pdf

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Author : Alfred Dolge
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1972-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0486228568

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Pianos and Their Makers by Alfred Dolge Pdf

An internationally renowned manufacturer, designer, and inventor of piano-making machinery presents a history of the development of the 19th-century piano. Photographs of instruments, working diagrams, and portraits of important personalities accompany the text. Covers automatic instruments, including player pianos. "Invaluable data about American piano making." — Grove's.

Author : Anthony DelDonna
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781108477611

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Instrumental Music in Late Eighteenth-Century Naples by Anthony DelDonna Pdf

This book demonstrates the cultivation of instrumental genres by Neapolitan musicians and its significant stature at the royal court. Drawing on archival documents and musical sources, it paints a compelling history of local instrumental music culture and contributes to a wider ethnographic portrait of Naples in the late eighteenth-century.

Author : F. E. Kirby
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781493082858

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Music for Piano by F. E. Kirby Pdf

This 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.

Author : Scott Burnham,Michael P. Steinberg
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780691218328

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Beethoven and His World by Scott Burnham,Michael P. Steinberg Pdf

Few composers even begin to approach Beethoven's pervasive presence in modern Western culture, from the concert hall to the comic strip. Edited by a cultural historian and a music theorist, Beethoven and His World gathers eminent scholars from several disciplines who collectively speak to the range of Beethoven's importance and of our perennial fascination with him. The contributors address Beethoven's musical works and their cultural contexts. Reinhold Brinkmann explores the post-revolutionary context of Beethoven's "Eroica" Symphony, while Lewis Lockwood establishes a typology of heroism in works like Fidelio. Elaine Sisman, Nicholas Marston, and Glenn Stanley discuss issues of temporality, memory, and voice in works at the threshold of Beethoven's late style, such as An die Ferne Geliebte, the Cello Sonata op. 102, no. 1, and the somewhat later Piano Sonata op. 109. Peering behind the scenes into Beethoven's workshop, Tilman Skowroneck explains how the young Beethoven chose his pianos, and William Kinderman shows Beethoven in the process of sketching and revising his compositions. The volume concludes with four essays engaging the broader question of reception of Beethoven's impact on his world and ours. Christopher Gibbs' study of Beethoven's funeral and its aftermath features documentary material appearing in English for the first time; art historian Alessandra Comini offers an illustrated discussion of Beethoven's ubiquitous and iconic frown; Sanna Pederson takes up the theme of masculinity in critical representations of Beethoven; and Leon Botstein examines the aesthetics and politics of hearing extramusical narratives and plots in Beethoven's music. Bringing together varied and fresh approaches to the West's most celebrated composer, this collection of essays provides music lovers with an enriched understanding of Beethoven--as man, musician, and phenomenon.

Author : Ian Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521896092

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Music in London and the Myth of Decline by Ian Taylor Pdf

Taylor questions the widely held belief that the turn of the nineteenth century marked a 'dark age' of musical performance.

Author : Eva Badura-Skoda
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780253022646

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The Eighteenth-Century Fortepiano Grand and Its Patrons by Eva Badura-Skoda Pdf

“Badura-Skoda addresses the place of the piano in the eighteenth century from the perspective of a scholar and performer” (Eighteenth-Century Music). In the late seventeenth century, Italian musician and inventor Bartolomeo Cristofori developed a new musical instrument—his cembalo che fa il piano e forte, which allowed keyboard players flexible dynamic gradation. This innovation, which came to be known as the hammer-harpsichord or fortepiano grand, was slow to catch on in musical circles. However, as renowned piano historian Eva Badura-Skoda demonstrates, the instrument inspired new keyboard techniques and performance practices and was eagerly adopted by virtuosos of the age, including Scarlatti, J. S. Bach, Clementi, Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. Presenting a rich array of archival evidence, Badura-Skoda traces the construction and use of the fortepiano grand across the musical cultures of eighteenth-century Europe, providing a valuable resource for music historians, organologists, and performers. “Badura-Skoda has written a remarkable volume, the result of a lifetime of scholarly research and investigation. . . . Essential.” —Choice

Author : Pierre Dubois
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351572354

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Charles Avison's Essay on Musical Expression by Pierre Dubois Pdf

Charles Avison's Essay on Musical Expression, first published in 1752, is a major contribution to the debate on musical aesthetics which developed in the course of the 18th century. Considered by Charles Burney as the first essay devoted to 'musical criticism' proper, it established the primary importance of 'expression' and reconsidered the relative importance of harmony and melody. Immediately after its publication it was followed by William Hayes's Remarks (1753), to which Avison himself retorted in his Reply. Taken together these three texts offer a fascinating insight into the debate that raged in the 18th century between the promoters of the so-called 'ancient music' (such as Hayes) and the more 'modern' musicians. Beyond matters of taste, what was at stake in Avison's theoretical contribution was the assertion that the individual's response to music ultimately mattered more than the dry rules established by professional musicians. Avison also wrote several prefaces to the published editions of his own musical compositions. This volume reprints these prefaces and advertisements together with his Essay to provide an interesting view of eighteenth-century conceptions of composition and performance, and a complete survey of Avison's theory of music.

Author : Theodore E. Steinway
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Piano makers
ISBN : UCAL:B3420944

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People and Pianos by Theodore E. Steinway Pdf

Author : Maurice Hinson,Wesley Roberts
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780253067289

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The Pianist's Bookshelf, Second Edition by Maurice Hinson,Wesley Roberts Pdf

Originally published in 1997, The Pianist's Bookshelf, was, according to the Library Journal, "a unique and valuable tool." Now rewritten for a modern audience, this second edition expands into the 21st century. A completely revised update, The Pianist's Bookshelf, Second Edition, comes to the rescue of pianists overwhelmed by the abundance of books, videos, and other works about the piano. In this clear, easy-to-use reference book, Maurice Hinson and Wesley Roberts survey hundreds of sources and provide concise, practical annotations for each item, thus saving the reader hours of precious research time. In addition to the main listings of entries, such as "Chamber Music" and "Piano Duet," the book has indexes of authors, composers, and performers. A handy reference from the masters of piano bibliography, The Pianist's Bookshelf, Second Edition, will be an invaluable resource to students, teachers, and musicians.

Author : Tilman Skowroneck
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781139487863

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Beethoven the Pianist by Tilman Skowroneck Pdf

The widely held belief that Beethoven was a rough pianist, impatient with his instruments, is not altogether accurate: it is influenced by anecdotes dating from when deafness had begun to impair his playing. Presenting a detailed biography of Beethoven's formative years, this book reviews the composer's early career, outlining how he was influenced by teachers, theorists and instruments. Skowroneck describes the development and decline of Beethoven's pianism, and pays special attention to early pianos, their construction and their importance for Beethoven and the modern pianist. The book also includes discussions of legato and Beethoven's trills, and a complete annotated review of eyewitnesses' reports about his playing. Skowroneck presents a revised picture of Beethoven which traces his development from an impetuous young musician into a virtuoso in command of many musical resources.

Author : Derek Carew
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351542685

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The Mechanical Muse: The Piano, Pianism and Piano Music, c.1760-1850 by Derek Carew Pdf

This book charts the piano's accession from musical curiosity to cultural icon, examining the instrument itself in its various guises as well as the music written for it. Both the piano and piano music were very much the product of the intellectual, cultural and social environments of the period and both were subject to many influences, directly and indirectly. These included character (individualism), the vernacular ('folk/popular') and creativity (improvisation), all of which are discussed generally and with respect to the music itself. Derek Carew surveys the most important pianistic genres of the period (variations, rondos, and so on), showing how these changed from their received forms into vehicles of Romantic expressiveness. The piano is also looked at in its role as an accompanying instrument. The Mechanical Muse will be of interest to anyone who loves the piano or the period, from the non-specialist to the music postgraduate.

Author : Arthur Loesser
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780486171616

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Men, Women and Pianos by Arthur Loesser Pdf

A renowned concert pianist traces the instrument's design, manufacture, and music in a delightful "piano's eye-view" of the social history of Western Europe and the United States from the 16th to the 20th centuries.

Author : Linda Zionkowski,Miriam F. Hart
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781684485178

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Women and Music in the Age of Austen by Linda Zionkowski,Miriam F. Hart Pdf

Women and Music in the Age of Austen highlights the central role women played in musical performance, composition, reception, and representation, and analyzes its formative and lasting effect on Georgian culture. This interdisciplinary collection of essays from musicology, literary studies, and gender studies challenges the conventional historical categories that marginalize women’s experience from Austen’s time. Contesting the distinctions between professional and amateur musicians, public and domestic sites of musical production, and performers and composers of music, the contributors reveal how women’s widespread involvement in the Georgian musical scene allowed for self-expression, artistic influence, and access to communities that transcended the boundaries of gender, class, and nationality. This volume’s breadth of focus advances our understanding of a period that witnessed a musical flourishing, much of it animated by female hands and voices. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.