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Joseph Haydn's Keyboard Music: Sources and Style

A. Peter Brown
Distribution: World
Publication date: 10/1/1986
Format: cloth 480 pages, 22 b&w photos
ISBN: 978-0-253-33182-3
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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 Klavierstücke.

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"This work is highly recommended for all larger public and academic libraries and smaller libraries with specialized music collections." —Robert L. Wick, American Reference Book Annual 2008 vol. 39 , 2008

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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