The Virtual Haydn: Paradox of a Twenty-First-Century Keyboardist - Rilegato

Beghin, Tom

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ISBN 10: 022615677X ISBN 13: 9780226156774

Casa editrice: Univ of Chicago Pr, 2015

Riassunto

Haydn’s music has been performed continuously for more than two hundred years. But what do we play, and what do we listen to, when it comes to Haydn? Can we still appreciate the rich rhetorical nuances of this music, which from its earliest days was meant to be played by professionals and amateurs alike?

With The Virtual Haydn, Tom Beghinhimself a professional keyboard playerdelves deeply into eighteenth-century history and musicology to help us hear a properly complex Haydn. Unusually for a scholarly work, the book is presented in the first person, as Beghin takes us on what is clearly a very personal journey into the past. When a discussion of a group of Viennese sonatas, for example, leads him into an analysis of the contemporary interest in physiognomy, Beghin applies what he learns about the role of facial expressions during his own performance of the music. Elsewhere, he analyzes gesture and gender, changes in keyboard technology, and the role of amateurs in eighteenth-century musical culture.

The resulting book is itself a fascinating, bravura performance, one that partakes of eighteenth-century idiosyncrasy while drawing on a panoply of twenty-first-century knowledge.

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L'autore

Tom Beghin is associate professor at McGill University in Montreal and an internationally active performer on historical keyboards. He is coeditor ofHaydn and the Performance of Rhetoric, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Univ of Chicago Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 022615677X
• ISBN 13: 9780226156774
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 329