Author: Charles Rosen
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 030019613X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 331
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Beethoven’s piano sonatas form one of the most important collections of works in the whole history of music. Spanning several decades of his life as a composer, the sonatas soon came to be seen as the first body of substantial serious works for piano suited to performance in large concert halls seating hundreds of people. In this comprehensive and authoritative guide, Charles Rosen places the works in context and provides an understanding of the formal principles involved in interpreting and performing this unique repertoire, covering such aspects as sonata form, phrasing, and tempo, as well as the use of pedal and trills. In the second part of his book, he looks at the sonatas individually, from the earliest works of the 1790s through the sonatas of Beethoven’s youthful popularity of the early 1800s, the subsequent years of mastery, the years of stress (1812†“1817), and the last three sonatas of the 1820s. Composed as much for private music-making as public recital, Beethoven’s sonatas have long formed a bridge between the worlds of the salon and the concert hall. For today’s audience, Rosen has written a guide that brings out the gravity, passion, and humor of these works and will enrich the appreciation of a wide range of readers, whether listeners, amateur musicians, or professional pianists. The book includes a CD of Rosen performing extracts from several of the sonatas, illustrating points made in the text.
Author: Ludwig van Beethoven
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486408484
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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This collection features the most famous of the composer's 32 piano sonatas. Includes "Pathétique," "Moonlight," "Waldstein," "Appassionata," "Les Adieux." New introduction by Carl Schachter, and performance notes by Anton Kuerti.
Author: Sergei Rachmaninoff
Publisher: Alfred Music
ISBN: 9781457457616
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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From an earlier Belwin Mills edition, this is Volume 5 of a series of the piano works of the great Russian-American composer. Included are Rachmaninoff's Opus 28 and Opus 36 Sonatas. The Opus 28, in D-minor, in three movements, was completed in 1907 and was introduced in Dresden, Germany. The Opus 36, in B-flat minor, also in three movements, was written and 1913 but was later revised by the composer.
Author: Robert Taub
Publisher: Amadeus
ISBN: 9781574671780
Category : Sonatas (Piano)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Acclaimed pianist Robert Taub offers the insights of a passionate musician who performs all 32 of Beethoven's well-loved piano sonatas in concert worldwide bringing a fresh perspective on Beethoven as the ÊNew York TimesÊ put it. In this book he shares his intimate understanding of these works with listeners and players alike.
Author: Joseph Haydn
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486438244
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 130
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Haydn pioneered the development of sonata form, and this compilation comprises 11 of the master's finest sonatas -- from short, simple early works to the more complex thematic developments and variations that followed.
Author: Jan Marisse Huizing
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300251602
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 335
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A comprehensive and immersive survey of thirty-five Beethoven piano sonatas Beethoven's piano sonatas are among the iconic cornerstones of the classical music repertoire. Jan Marisse Huizing offers an in-depth study of the sonatas using available autographs, first editions, recordings, and nearly three hundred musical examples. Digging into the historical background and historical performance practice, the book provides illuminating detail on Beethoven's pianism as well as his characteristics of notation, form and content, "types of touch," articulation, beaming, pedal indications, character, rubato, meter, metric constructions, tempo, and metronome marks. Packed with anecdotes, quotations, and considerable new information, the book will inspire all involved with these masterworks, playing a fortepiano or modern Grand, giving the sense of the composer sitting beside them as he translates his inspiration and ideas into his notation.
Author: Ludwig van Beethoven
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486401140
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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This memorable tribute reveals Liszt's remarkable capacity for translating orchestral effects into pianistic terms. An astonishing, brilliant, and sensitive tribute to the master by the 19th-century's greatest piano virtuoso.
Author: Ludwig van Beethoven
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486435709
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 163
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This collection features 25 popular pieces, including the Sonata in C-sharp Minor, Op. 27, No. 2 ("Moonlight"); Sonata in D Minor, Op. 31, No. 2 ("Tempest"); 32 Variations in C Minor; more.
Author: Johann Sebastian Bach
Publisher: G Schirmer, Incorporated
ISBN: 9781495007330
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Classical/Opera Piano Solos
Author: Heinrich Schenker
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199914273
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Heinrich Schenker ranks among the most important figures in the development of western music theory in the twentieth century. His approach to the analysis of music permeates nearly every aspect of the field and continues to this day to be a topic of great interest among music theorists, historians, composers and performers. In his four volume work, Die letzen Sonaten von Beethoven: Kritische Ausgabe mit Einf?hrung und Erl?uterung (The Last Piano Sonatas by Beethoven: Critical edition with Introduction and Commentary) Schenker presented editions of Beethoven's Opp. 109, 110, 111 and 101 that were, at the time, unprecedented in their faithfulness to such authoritative sources as Beethoven's autograph manuscripts. He included a movement-by-movement and section-by-section discussion of form and content that grew increasingly penetrating from one volume to the next as the musical theory for which he is now known was developed, alongside inspired and detailed suggestions for the performance of each section of each work. In Beethoven's Last Piano Sonatas: An Edition, with Elucidation, noted Schenker scholar John Rothgeb presents the first English language edition and translation of these important works. Rothgeb builds upon Schenker's text, adding explanations of certain points in the commentary, references to corrections and other remarks entered by Schenker in his personal copies of the volumes, and graphic presentations of several passages (a practice that became standard in Schenker's own analytical work later in his career). Making these seminal works accessible to English speaking scholars and students for the first time, Beethoven's Last Piano Sonatas is an essential reference for music theorists, historians, performers, and composers alike.
