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László Somfai

The Keyboard Sonatas of Joseph Haydn

Instruments and Performance Practice, Genres and Styles

416 pages, 220 music examples and figures  6-5/8 x 9-3/8  © 1995

Cloth $65.00

ISBN: 9780226768144   Published December 1995

Paper $45.00

ISBN: 9780226768137   Pre-order now. Will publish May 2010

Preface
Abbreviations
1: Keyboard Instruments in Haydn's Time
2: For What Kind of Instrument Did Haydn Compose?
3: The Choice of Instruments for Present-Day Performers
4: An Introduction to Reading the Conventions of the Notation (Grace Notes,Ornaments)
5: Notation and Part Writing
6: Touch and Articulation
7: Haydn's Notation of Dynamics and Accents
8: Thoughts on Tempos in Haydn's Style
9: Early Divertimento and Partita Sonatas
10: The Mature Solo Piano Sonatas: A Survey with Historical Hypotheses
11: Originality and Personal Language: The Options of Analytic Methods
12: Survey and Classification
13: Grammar, Syntax, and Analytic Terminology
14: Exposition Strategies
15: The Primary Theme
16: Continuation: Secondary Group, Closing Group, and Fantasia-Like Insertions
17: Strategies of the Development Section
18: Recapitulation
19: Sonata Form and Scherzo Form in the Finale
20: Sonata Forms in Slow Tempos
21: Minuets
22: Rondos and Fast Variation Forms
23: Slow Variations and Double Variations
24: Fantasia and Capriccio
Catalog of the Sonatas: Data and Guide
Select Bibliography
Index
Ornament Locator
Thematic Locator
Subjects



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