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Few musical repertoires have attracted such a convenient and thorough compendium of knowledge."" -Early Music News A. Peter Brown has performed an excellent service for devotees of early keyboard music, and for all students of eighteenth-century music... "" -Early Keyboard Journal A. Peter Brown has created a unique compendium, discussing all of Haydn's works with keyboard, comparing them and placing them in a variety of contexts, historical, social and scholarly."" -Journal of the American Musicological Society ... stimulating... a book for which pianists... must be thankful."" -Journal of the American Liszt Society Haydn scholar A. Peter Brown offers the first detailed and comprehensive study of the composer's keyboard works, encompassing the solo sonatas, keyboard trios, accompanied divertimentos, concertos, concertinos, and Klavierstucke.

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Author:   A. Peter Brown
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Imprint:   Indiana University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 23.40cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 15.60cm
Weight:   0.934kg
ISBN:  

9780253331823

ISBN 10:   025333182
Pages:   480
Publication Date:   22 October 1986
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of print, replaced by POD  
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Table of Contents

Preface Identification of Haydn's Works Collation of Numberings of Haydn's Keyboard Trios Collation of Numberings of Haydn's Solo Sonatas Library Sigla Abbreviations PART ONE: SOURCES I. Introduction: Haydn and the Keyboard, a Revisionist View II. The Keyboard Works in Biographical, Critical, and Musical Documents III. Authenticity IV. Dating and Chronology V. The Question of Keyboard Idiom VI. The Viennese Keyboard Tradition VII. Joseph Haydn and C.P.E. Bach: The Question of Influence PART TWO: STYLE VIII. Toward Defining Genre and Genre Types IX. The Concertos: Structure and Style X. The Solo and Accompanied Keyboard Music: Structure and Style Bibliography Notes General Index Index of Works

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Few musical repertoires have attracted such a convenient and thorough compendium of knowledge. Early Music News A. Peter Brown has performed an excellent service for devotees of early keyboard music, and for all students of eighteenth-century music ... Early Keyboard Journal A. Peter Brown has created a unique compendium, discussing all of Haydn's works with keyboard, comparing them and placing them in a variety of contexts, historical, social and scholarly. Journal of the American Musicological Society ... stimulating ... a book for which pianists ... must be thankful. Journal of the American Liszt Society

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