Eighteenth-Century Keyboard Music

18th-Century Piano Musicfocuses on the core composers of the 18th century repertoire. The book begins with an overview of the keyboard instruments that were in use during the period, and a chapter on performance practice. Then, the book proceeds through each major composer, beginning with Bach, and then progressing through the French Masters, Scarlatti, C.P.E and J.C. Bach, Haydn, Mozart, and Early Beethoven.

Preface

vii

Acknowledgments

xiii

Second Edition

xiv

Contributors

xv

The Instruments

1

(32)

Laurence Libin

Idioms and Instruments

Social Contexts

The Industry Construction, Mechanisms, Ranges

The Harpsichord The Clavichord

The Piano

The Organ

Carillons and Other Keyboard Instruments

Aspects of Performance Practice

33

(35)

Eva Badura-Skoda

Problems of Text and Notation

Tempo

Rhythm

Ornaments Improvised Embellishments

Authenticity and ``Original'' Sound Early Use of the Cembalo con martelli

Good Execution: Music as Language and Rhetoric

Johann Sebastian Bach

68

(56)

Robert L. Marshall

The Repertoire

Bach's Instruments

The First Decade, ca. 1703-1713: Apprenticeship and Early Mastery

The First Synthesis: 1713-1723

The Second Synthesis: Leipzig, 1726-1741

The Final Decade

French Masters

124

(30)

Mark Kroll

Elements of the Style

The Keyboard Genres

History to about 1750 After Mid-Century

Influence and Legacy

Domenico Scarlatti

154

(37)

Frederick Hammond

The Career

The Sources of the Scarlatti Sonatas

Scarlatti's Instruments

Aspects of Performance Practice in Scarlatti

The Sources of Scarlatti's Keyboard Style

The Structure of the Scarlatti Sonata

The Development of Scarlatti's Style

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

191

(39)

David Schulenberg

Bach's Keyboard Style

Organization and Editions of Bach's Keyboard Works

Bach's Keyboard Works

Johann Christian Bach and the Early Classical Italian Masters

230

(40)

Daniel E. Freeman

The Repertory

Social Function, Social Status

The Founders of the Venetian Tradition: Marcello, Alberti

Early Classical Style Contemporaries of Marcello and Alberti

Mid-Century Developments

The Italian Keyboard Sonata Abroad

The Accompanied Sonata

Johann Christian Bach

Haydn's Solo Keyboard Music

270

(38)

Elaine Sisman

The Early Works

The Late 1760s and Early 1770s

Three Sets of Six, 1773-1780

The 1780s

The Last Works

Mozart's Solo Keyboard Music

308

(42)

Robert D. Levin

Compositional Fundamentals: Improvisation and Variation Early Keyboard Compositions

Munich, 1775: Six Sonatas Mannheim and Paris, 1777-1778

The Middle Period, 1783-1784

The Threshold to the Late Period: Three Rondos

The Late Piano Compositions

The Duo-Piano Works

Impact

Epilogue: Practical Issues

Mozart's Keyboard Concertos

350

(44)

Robert D. Levin

The Concerto Principle: Formal and Aesthetic Premises

The Early Period, 1767-1779

The Three Concertos of 1782-1783

The Twelve Great Concertos (1): 1784

The Twelve Great Concertos (2): 1785

The Twelve Great Concertos (3): 1786

The Final Concertos

Early Beethoven

394

(31)

William Drabkin

Sources

Texture in the Early Piano Music

Genres

The Piano Sonata

The Variation Set

Toward the Middle Period

Index

425

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