Keyboard Sonatas of Joseph Haydn - Instruments and Performance Practice, Genres and Styles

Zusammenfassung Presents a study of Haydn's keyboard sonatas. This title deals with Haydn's keyboard instruments and their development. It discusses performance practice and style! explains the peculiarities of Haydn's manuscripts in the context of 18th-century notation! and provides specific suggestions for playing ornaments! improvising! slurring! and dynamics.

Product details

• Authors: Laszlo Somfai, Somfai Laszlo
• Assisted by: Charlotte Greenspan (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.04.2010
• EAN: 9780226768137
• ISBN: 978-0-226-76813-7
• No. of pages: 416
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Monographs; MUSIC / Musical Instruments / Piano & Keyboard, Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, Composers and songwriters, Classical Music (C 1750 To C 1830), Classical style, Keyboard instruments, Art music, orchestral and formal music