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The Virtual Haydn: Paradox of a Twenty-First-Century Keyboardist
Tom Beghin
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Description for The Virtual Haydn: Paradox of a Twenty-First-Century Keyboardist
Hardcover. 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? This book delves deeply into eighteenth-century history and musicology to help us hear a properly complex Haydn. Num Pages: 368 pages, 17 colour plates, 23 halftones, 69 line drawings, 8 tables. BIC Classification: 3JF; AVA; AVGC3; AVGC4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 721.
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 Beghin - himself a professional keyboard player - delves 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 ... Read more
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 Beghin - himself a professional keyboard player - delves 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226156774
SKU
V9780226156774
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About Tom Beghin
Tom Beghin is associate professor at McGill University in Montreal and an internationally active performer on historical keyboards. He is the author of Haydn and the Performance of Rhetoric.
Reviews for The Virtual Haydn: Paradox of a Twenty-First-Century Keyboardist
"A highly original book that places the performer (historical and contemporary) at the center of scholarly inquiry; it is a virtuosic exercise in historical imagining." (Annette Richards, Cornell University)"