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The sonata /

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....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schmidt, Thomas (Musicologist)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Alemán
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Colección:Cambridge introductions to music.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Chapter 1 : Definitions. Sonata and canzona ; Sonata and sinfonia ; Sonata and concerto ; Sonata and suite/partita ; The sonata and free instrumental genres : toccata, ricercar, capriccio. fantasia
  • Chapter 2 : 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
  • Chapter 3 : 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
  • Chapter 4 : Scoring and texture. Developments in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries ; The paradigm shift of ca. 1750 ; The age of the piano sonata ; Piano and others ; The sonata for unaccompanied solo instrument ; The organ sonata.