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Understanding Mozart's Piano Sonatas (Paperback)
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Understanding Mozart's Piano Sonatas (Paperback)
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Mozart's piano sonatas are among the most familiar of his works and
stand alongside those of Haydn and Beethoven as staples of the
pianist's repertoire. In this study, John Irving looks at a wide
selection of contextual situations for Mozart's sonatas, focusing
on the variety of ways in which they assume identities and achieve
meanings. In particular, the book seeks to establish the
provisionality of the sonatas' notated texts, suggesting that the
texts are not so much identifiers as possibilities and that their
identity resides in the usage. Close attention is paid to reception
matters, analytical approaches, organology, the role of autograph
manuscripts, early editions and editors, and aspects of historical
performance practice - all of which go beyond the texts in opening
windows onto Mozart's sonatas. Treating the sonatas collectively as
a repertoire, rather than as individual works, the book surveys
broad thematic issues such as the role of historical writing about
music in defining a generic space for Mozart's sonatas, their
construction within pedagogical traditions, the significance of
sound as opposed to sight in these works (and in particular their
sound on fortepianos of the later eighteenth-century) , and the
creative role of the performer in their representation beyond the
frame of the text. Drawing together and synthesizing this wealth of
material, Irving provides an invaluable reference source for those
already familiar with this repertoire.
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