Research Catalog

Title

The piano trio : its history, technique, and repertoire / Basil Smallman.

Author

Smallman, Basil

Publication

Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1990.

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Additional Authors

Irwin K. Carson Collection. mus

Description

viii, 230 p. : music; 23 cm.

Summary

"Over the centuries of its history the Piano Trio has gained a repertoire of exceptional size and richness, one which includes some of the greatest and most widely admired of all chamber works. This book, reviews the development of the trio in different countries against the background of general musical history, showing how it has reflected changes in style and technique from Mozart and Haydn in the late eighteenth century to the avant-garde composers of the present day." "The author's survey focuses on the principal works in the trio repertoire, and his clear analytical descriptions are illustrated by a number of musical examples. In parallel with this he gives particular consideration to the problems involved in scoring for the ensemble, and to the way in which the participating instruments were gradually developed in range and power from the earliest times of the genre. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

Piano trios > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-221) and indexes.

Contents

The Late Eighteenth Century: Mozart and Haydn -- The Grand Sonata Style: Beethoven and Schubert -- Interlude: Some Aspects of Technique -- The German Romantics -- The Nationalists -- The Twentieth Century.

ISBN

• 0193183072 :
• 0198163045 (pbk)

LCCN

^^^89009412^

OCLC

• 19669418
• SCSB-10197090

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library