Choice Reviews Online · 1996 · 43 citations · 0 references
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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