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9780521762540

The Sonata

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  • ISBN13:

    9780521762540

  • ISBN10:

    0521762545

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2011-03-31
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Summary

What is a sonata? Literally translated, it simply means 'instrumental piece'. It is the epitome of instrumental music, and is certainly the oldest and most enduring form of 'pure' and independent instrumental composition, beginning around 1600 and lasting to the present day. Schmidt-Beste analyses key aspects of the genre including form, scoring and its social context - who composed, played and listened to sonatas? In giving a comprehensive overview of all forms of music which were called 'sonatas' at some point in musical history, this book is more about change than about consistency - an ensemble sonata by Gabrieli appears to share little with a Beethoven sonata, or a trio sonata by Corelli with one of Boulez's piano sonatas, apart from the generic designation. However, common features do emerge, and the look across the centuries - never before addressed in a single-volume survey - opens up new and significant perspectives.

Table of Contents

Definitions
Sonata and canzona
Sonata and sinfonia
Sonata and concerto
Sonata and suite/partita
The sonata and free instrumental genres: toccata - ricercar - capriccio - fantasia
Form
The 'free' sonata in the seventeenth century
Corelli and his legacy
Sonata cycles and 'sonata form' after 1750
Beethoven's sonatas - consummating or transcending Classical form?
The cycle
The sonata after Beethoven
Sonata composition in the twentieth century
Functions and Aesthetics
Locations and occasions
Target groups: professionals, connoisseurs and amateurs
Learned style
Virtuosity
Sonata form as an aesthetic paradigm
Absolute music? On meaning and programmaticism
Scoring and Texture
Developments in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
The paradigm shift of c.1750
The age of the piano sonata
Piano and others
The sonata for unaccompanied solo instrument
The organ sonata
Bibliography
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