This study aims to get as close as possible to the way in which Beethoven himself would have played his piano music in both the solo and the ensemble works. These performance practices will vary according to the instrument used, tempo taken, pedalling decisions and matters of style.
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Eminent music scholar Newman, whose three-volume history of the sonata idea is a landmark work in musicology, has brought together his interests in Beethoven and piano playing in this important study of performance practice in Beethoven's piano music. Newman aims to discover how Beethoven actually intended his music to be played. Relying on autograph scores, early editions, Beethoven's letters, and eyewitness accounts of his performances, plus a vast and comprehensive array of source materials, Newman explores all the major issues affecting performance practice. Always fair and judicious, he presents the evidence, sometimes contradictory, and allows the reader to draw conclusions. The value of this book, both as historical study and practical guide, cannot be overstated. Susan Kagan, Hunter Coll., CUNY
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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IN THIS BOOK'S SUBTITLE, playing Beethoven's piano music his way might be expanded to mean playing it according to whatever intentions on Beethoven's part can be documented or can be supported by reasoning and analysis in the primary sources for his music. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
dotted qtr, contrametric accents, tempo inscription, harmonic blur, tone feet, solo piano sonatas, molto sentimento, staccato signs, tempo flexibility, short appoggiaturas, damper pedal, tone foot, pedal application, original fingerings, feminine cadence, tre corde, pedal indications, dynamic direction, corda pedal, editorial markings, senza sordino, expressive factors, performance intentions, rhythmic character, metronome markings Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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IN THIS BOOK'S SUBTITLE, playing Beethoven's piano music his way might be expanded to mean playing it according to whatever intentions on Beethoven's part can be documented or can be supported by reasoning and analysis in the primary sources for his music. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
dotted qtr, contrametric accents, tempo inscription, harmonic blur, tone feet, solo piano sonatas, molto sentimento, staccato signs, tempo flexibility, short appoggiaturas, damper pedal, tone foot, pedal application, original fingerings, feminine cadence, tre corde, pedal indications, dynamic direction, corda pedal, editorial markings, senza sordino, expressive factors, performance intentions, rhythmic character, metronome markings Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Emanuel Bach, Beethoven's Sonata, Ninth Symphony, Conversation Books, Cramer's Etude, Hermann Beck, Cramer Etudes, Grosse Fuge, New York, Rudolf Kolisch, Deutsche Grammophon, Ferdinand Ries, Franz Kullak, Poco Allegretto, Alan Tyson, Archduke Rudolph, Beethoven's Schneller, Clementi's Introduction, Gustav Nottebohm, Robert Winter, Tobias Haslinger New!
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- The Rhythmic Structure of Music (Phoenix Books) by Grosvenor Cooper on page 175, and Back Matter
- Don Giovanni in Full Score by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on page 109, and Back Matter
- Thayer's Life of Beethoven, Part I by Elliot Forbes in Back Matter
- The Sonata Since Beethoven, (A history of the sonata idea) by William S. Newman in Back Matter
- The Book of the Piano by Dominic Gill in Back Matter
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- Early Keyboard Instruments: A Practical Guide (Cambridge Handbooks to the Historical Performance of Music) by David Rowland on 5 pages
- The Cambridge Companion to Beethoven (Cambridge Companions to Music) by Glenn Stanley on 5 pages
- Beethoven's Concertos: History, Style, Performance by Leon Plantinga on 4 pages
- Inside Early Music: Conversations with Performers by Bernard D. Sherman on 4 pages
- Nineteenth-Century Piano Music (Routledge Studies in Musical Genres) by R. Larry Todd on page 17, page 54, and page 95
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