Overview
In this comprehensive study of performance practice in Haydn's keyboard music, Bernard Harrison confronts the important issues facing any performer of Haydn's keyboard music. He deals with the full range of Haydn's keyboard work - concertos, divertimenti, concertini, trios, Klavierstücke, and sonatas - and emphasizes the connection between performance practice and compositional style. He addresses many of the most controversial issues in recent research on the performance practice of eighteenth- century music, and takes a stance on some of the recurring controversies in Haydn research. Haydn's ornamentation is treated in four extensive chapters which range over Haydn's changing notational practices, the large corpus of 18th-century theoretical information on performance, and an examination of the music itself. Other issues in performance are elucidated in wide-ranging discussions, and Harrison presents new evidence on the question of the influence of C.P.E. Bach on Haydn. He surveys broader aspects of interpretation, commenting sympathetically but critically on the phenomenon of `early music'.
Full Product Details
Author: Bernard Harrison (Lecturer in Music, Lecturer in Music, University of Lancaster)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Clarendon Press
Dimensions:
Width: 16.40cm
, Height: 2.70cm
, Length: 24.60cm
Weight: 0.827kg
ISBN: 9780198163251
ISBN 10: 0198163258
Pages: 454
Publication Date: 01 May 1997
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
A major contribution to Hayden scholarship. Potential performers of the composer's keyboard music will find a commanding and well-documented exposition of the problems facing him or her; at the same time the volume will be of fundamental value to those interested in Haydn's music who are not primarily practitioners....Comprehensive and authoritative. --David Wyn Jones<br>
<br> A major contribution to Hayden scholarship. Potential performers of the composer's keyboard music will find a commanding and well-documented exposition of the problems facing him or her; at the same time the volume will be of fundamental value to those interested in Haydn's music who are not primarily practitioners....Comprehensive and authoritative. --David Wyn Jones<br>
written in a continuous and stylish prose which makes it a delight to read ... An excellent bibliography and index finish off the volume. It is highly recommended. Harpsichord & fortepiano, Vol 9, No 1, Spring 2001 Harrison is always eager to examine every scrap of evidence in detail, spelling out his thought processes before arriving at cautious conclusions ... excellent book. David Rowland, Early Music this is an extremely valuable study ... Early Music Review, 32, July 1997 If a choice must be limited ot one text on how to perform Haydn's keyboard music, the edge must go to Harrison's for its comprehensiveness, clarity and exclusive focus ... this is a valuable contribution to what will certainly be a continuing discussion of an elusive subject. A. Peter Brown, Music and Letters Harrison provides useful insights into the performance practices concerning Joseph Haydn's sonatas for keyboard instruments ... graduate students and faculty will find much of interest in this book. W. E. Grim, CHOICE
