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Author Huizing, Jan Marisse, author.

Title Ludwig van Beethoven : the piano sonatas : history, notation, interpretation / Jan Marisse Huizing ; translated by Gerald R. Mettam
Published New Haven : Yale University Press, [2021]
©2021

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Description 1 online resource (x, 322 pages) : illustrations, music
Contents The sonatas : overview : form and content -- Beethoven's pianism -- The piano in Beethoven's time -- Performance practice and Beethoven's notation. Types of Touch ; From "common" touch to legato ; Legato ; Prolonged touch ; Detached touch ; Beaming ; Pedaling ; Rubato ; Character and "heavy" and "light" execution ; Meter and metrical construction ; Uneven metrical constructions ; Meter and subdivisions ; Tempo ; The metronome -- The editions -- Style and interpretation -- The recordings -- Appendix. Keyboard actions
Summary "A comprehensive and immersive survey of thirty-five Beethoven piano sonatas."--From publisher's description
Notes Translated from the German
"Originally published in German. Title of the original German edition: Ludwig van Beethoven : die Klaviersonaten, Interpretation und Aufführungspraxis by Jan Marisse Huizing, ED 21349, © 2012"--Title page verso
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-310) and indexes
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 01, 2021)
Subject Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827 -- Criticism and interpretation
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827. Sonatas, piano.
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827 -- Appreciation
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827
SUBJECT Sonatas (Beethoven, Ludwig van) fast
Subject Sonatas (Piano) -- Analysis, appreciation.
Sonata.
Piano music -- Interpretation (Phrasing, dynamics, etc.)
MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician.
Sonatas (Piano) -- Analysis, appreciation
Piano music -- Interpretation (Phrasing, dynamics, etc.)
Art appreciation
Sonata
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Mettam, Gerald, 1945- translator.
ISBN 0300262744
9780300262742
Other Titles Ludwig van Beethoven. English
Piano sonatas : history, notation, interpretation