A History of the Sonata Idea: Volume 1: The Sonata in the Baroque Era

ISBN-13: 9780807838754 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 481 str.

William S. Newman

Opis

This volume provides a full and careful history of what sonata meant and how the word was used from its first appearance as an instrumental title in the sixteenth century to the near end of the thorough-bass practice around 1750. The revised edition includes nearly three hundred new studies, editions, and other pertinent information.

Originally published in 1966.

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