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The piano sonatas by Harold Shapero: a stylistic synthesis
… investigation into the stylistic language of the piano sonatas of Harold Shapero (1920-2013)—a twentieth-century American composer who is recognized as a member of the “Stravinsky School,” particularly for his emulation of Stravinsky’s Neoclassical style. Within its consideration of Neoclassical …
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Aspects of Schubert's compositional style as displayed in selected piano sonatas
Includes bibliographical references.
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Performance Insights for Mozart Piano Sonatas Derived from Eighteenth-Century Compositional Guides
… into the musical language found in the Mozart sonatas K. 281, 333, 457 and 576. The contemporaneous concepts of the phrase punctuation, expansion and extension, phrase hierarchy, logical relations, and topics forms the basis of the analyses. Insights from the analysis lead to suggestions for …
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The Six Piano Sonatas of James Sellars: Aspects of Form, Rhythm, Texture, and Style
… chamber, voices with ensemble, solo voice, piano, instrumental solos, band, and media. Sellars' compositions for piano solo span a 38-year period and total 17 works, the most important of which are his six one-movement sonatas, which represent, according to Sellars, "a journey from modernism …
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Aspects of Form, Tonality, and Texture in the ''Farewell'' Piano Sonatas of Beethoven and Dussek
… Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), each wrote one piano sonata with a "Farewell" title. The Bohemian musician Dussek was one of the renowned composers of his era. He was also famous as a pianist, with a brilliant and virtuosic style of playing. Beethoven was a German composer who has become …
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A Study of the Beethoven Piano Sonatas in the Light of Evidence Provided by Beethoven's Pupils
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Piano sonatas by South African composers, 1900-2015: a catalogue and compositional analyses of selected works
The piano sonata’s prominent position in Western art music is reflected in both its long history and its presence in the oeuvres of composers from across the globe. While some information on piano sonatas by South African composers has been included in academic literature, no comprehensive research …
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A Survey of the Piano Sonatas of Wilhelm Stenhammar (1871-1927) with Performance Suggestions for the Piano Sonata in G Minor
… brief analysis of the formal structures of five sonatas and performance suggestions for the G minor piano sonata of Wilhelm Stenhammar. This paper explores aspects of piano performance, such as the basic technical approach, interpretation suggestions, as well as examinations of pedaling, possible …
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Schubert: The Musical Poet Sonata D 959 and Its Pianistic Challenges
<p>Schubert composed the last three piano sonatas in September of 1828, and these works represent the peak of the composer's achievement in the sonata genre. Schubert's distinctive style lies in his compositional voice, which originated in his <em>lieder</em>, but projected equally well to the …
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The piano and violoncello sonatas of Ludwig Van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven's Sonatas for Piano and Violoncello have been somewhat neglected in terms of published study. Drabkin (1991a, n.p.) considers that the early sonatas "have received far less attention than they deserve", a deficiency which Lockwood attributes, in the case of the cello sonatas in …
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"Modernity's hearing loss" : Beethoven, romantic critique, and the music of the literary
… around 1800. By taking as a case study the piano sonatas Op. 31, each chapter examines from a different perspective what represents a key historical moment in the genealogy of the modern notions of musical form and experience. The underlying thesis is that instrumental music was legitimized …
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"What is ""Normal?"" A Beethovenian Reconsideration of Some of Tovey's Aesthetic Principles"
… abnormal compositions, the mature two-movement piano sonatas (Opp. 54, 78, 90, and 111) and the eleven bagatelles, Op. 119. Ultimately, I find that while Tovey’s concepts are helpful, they do not yield equally fruitful results when applied to several types of pieces.
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Towards a performance of Scriabin's Sonata No. 6, Op. 62: a practice-led exploration
… descriptions found in the scores of his late piano music, which suggest that the musical content is closely connected to Scriabin’s own very individual philosophical belief system. There has already been research in this area, connecting the music of the late piano sonatas with Mystic Russian …
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Franz Liszt's "Dante Sonata": The origins, the criticism, a selective musical analysis, and commentary
… music regarded as "spiritual," (e.g., the late piano sonatas, the late string quartets), Liszt sought to articulate a category of music specifically religious, apart from vocal, liturgical associations. Liszt invented such music at the piano, an instrument incorporating the variety of sounds, …
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New light on Nikolay Medtner as pianist and teacher
… of his life in the UK. He wrote mainly for the piano, composing 14 piano sonatas, three piano concertos, 108 songs, three violin sonatas, a piano quintet and more than 90 pieces for solo piano. Although he performed and recorded, and was considered a prominent composer while he was resident in …
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A graduate recital in piano
13 audio files + 1 PDF file (iii, 14 pages)
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A master's recital in piano
8 audio files + 1 PDF file
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