A Checklist of The Earliest Keyboard "Sonatas" (1641-1738)

Notes ◽  
1954 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 201 ◽  
Author(s):  
William S. Newman
Keyword(s):  
Keyboard Sonatas

scholarly journals Performer rights and responsibilities in historical performance

Muzikologija ◽  
2014 ◽  
pp. 31-46
Author(s):  
John Irving
Keyword(s):  
Performance Practice ◽  
Joseph Haydn ◽  
John Irving ◽  
Keyboard Sonatas ◽  
Historical Performance

In April 2014, fortepianist and Mozart specialist John Irving recorded a CD of solo keyboard sonatas by Joseph Haydn, using a modern copy of a Viennese fortepiano of Haydn?s era. This is an account of the project written from the performer?s perspective, examining some relevant issues of historical performance practice, organology, and detailed reflections upon the performer?s preparations (of various musical and technical kinds) for the recording.

scholarly journals Perceiving the Classical Cadence

2012 ◽  
Vol 31 (5) ◽  
pp. 397-417 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Sears ◽  
William E. Caplin ◽  
Stephen McAdams
Keyword(s):  
Music Theory ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
Pivotal Role ◽  
Formal Context ◽  
Experimental Setting ◽  
Tonal Music ◽  
Classical Style ◽  
Keyboard Sonatas ◽  
Rhetorical Features ◽  
Underlying Mechanisms

This study explores the underlying mechanisms responsible for the perception of cadential closure in Mozart’s keyboard sonatas. Previous investigations into the experience of closure have typically relied upon the use of abstract harmonic formulæ as stimuli. However, these formulæ often misrepresent the ways in which composers articulate phrase endings in tonal music. This study, on the contrary, examines a wide variety of cadential types typically found in the classical style, including evaded cadences, which have yet to be examined in an experimental setting. The present findings reveal that cadential categories play a pivotal role in the perception of closure, and for musicians especially, ratings of the cadential categories provide empirical support for a model of cadential strength proposed in music theory. A number of rhetorical features also affect participants' ratings of closure, such as formal context, the presence of a melodic dissonance at the cadential arrival, and the use of a trill within the penultimate dominant. Finally, the results indicate that expertise modulates attention, with musicians privileging bass-line motion and nonmusicians attending primarily to the soprano voice.

Keyboard Sonatas of the 18th Century. Little Known Masterpieces for the piano

Notes ◽  
1968 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 133
Author(s):  
William S. Newman ◽  
James R. Smart
Keyword(s):  
18Th Century ◽  
Keyboard Sonatas
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