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With the same authority, insight, and unique ability to bring music to life on the printed page that he brought to his Guide to Chamber Music, the author gives us an indispensable guide to the sonata form. Comprehensive, analytical, and historical, including descriptions in nont…
Purcell's trio sonatas -- Harmony and counterpoint in the service of rhetoric -- Indiscernible structures -- Proportional symmetry and asymmetry -- Mirror symmetry and its implications -- Double fugue, triple fugue, and commutatio -- Ground bass
This book opens an important window to seventeenth-century compositional technique and offers further evidence of Purcell's use of advanced compositional techniques in works that aimed to be pleasurable for the amateur and excitingly thought-provoking for the professional. --fro…
Purcell's trio sonatas are among the cornerstones of Baroque chamber music. The composer himself unassumingly described them as "a just imitation of the most famed Italian masters." However, analysis of their underlying structures reveals that Purcell's modesty hides a highly or…
"In 1796 the young Beethoven presented his first two cello sonatas at the court of Frederick William II, an avid cellist and the reigning Prussian monarch. Released in print the next year, these revolutionary sonatas forever altered the cello repertoire by fundamentally redefini…
"In 1796 the young Beethoven presented his first two cello sonatas at the court of Frederick William II, an avid cellist and the reigning Prussian monarch. Released in print the next year, these revolutionary sonatas forever altered the cello repertoire by fundamentally redefini…
