Eighteenth-century keyboard music / edited by Robert L. Marshall.

Other author Marshall, Robert Lewis.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Schirmer ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International, ©1994.
Descriptionxvi, 443 pages : illustrations, music ; 25 cm.
Subjects
Keyboard instrument music--18th century. --History and criticism.
Performance practice (Music)--History. --18th century.
Keyboard instruments.
Harpsichord music--18th century. --History and criticism.
Piano music--18th century. --History and criticism.

Variant title 18th-century keyboard music
SeriesStudies in musical genres and repertories
Studies in musical genres and repertories. ^A268936
Contents The instruments / 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 / 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 / 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, 726-1741 ; The final decade -- French masters / Mark Kroll -- Domenico Scarlatti / Frederick Hammond. The career ; The sources of Scarlatti's 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 / 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 / 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 / Elaine R. 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 / 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. 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 / William Drabkin. Sources ; Texture in the early piano music ; Genres ; The piano sonata ; The variation set ; Toward the middle period.
Abstract This book focuses on the core composers of the 18th century repertoire. It 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 93045594
ISBN0028713559