The Beethoven sketchbooks : history, reconstruction, inventory / Douglas Johnson, Alan Tyson & Robert Winter ; edited by Douglas Johnson.
| Author/creator | Johnson, Douglas Porter |
| Other author | Tyson, Alan. |
| Other author | Winter, Robert, 1945- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1985. |
| Description | xx, 611 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | California studies in 19th century music ; 4 California studies in 19th century music ; 4. ^A174953 |
| Contents | Part I. Background. A survey of the principal collections -- Techniques for reconstructing the sketchbooks. How to read the structural charts -- Part II. The desk sketchbooks. Chronological chart -- Survey of the individual sketchbooks -- Part III. The pocket sketchbooks. Additional techniques of reconstruction -- Preliminary list of unstitched single-sheet pocket gatherings -- Chronological chart -- Survey of the individual sketchbooks -- Part IV. Sketches in score for the late quartets. Additional techniques of reconstruction ; Survey of the manuscripts of work ; String quartet in Eb major, opus 127 ; String quartet in A minor, opus 132 ; String quartet in Bb minor, opus 130 ; String Quartet in C# minor, opus 131 ; String quartet in F major, opus 135 ; New finale to the string quartet in Bb major, opus 130 -- Part V. Some problematical cases. Beethoven's sketches before Grasnick I ; Sketches for the string quartets, opus 59 (1806) ; Sketches for the fifth piano concerto, opus 73 (1809) ; Some sketches for opus 115, opus 117, and opus 113 (1811) ; Sketches for the piano sonata, opus 106 (1817-1818) -- Appendix A. Watermarks of the principal paper-types -- Appendix B. The Nachlass auction catalogue. |
| Abstract | A comprehensive description of Beethoven's sketchbooks--bound books of music paper in which Beethoven made sketches for his compositions from about 1798--has been long felt by Beethoven scholars. Although almost all the sketchbooks have survived in one form or another, it became clear in the 1960s that they were in a state of disarray. A reconstruction of their original condition was essential to the proper study of their musical contents. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| LCCN | 82025920 |
| ISBN | 0520048350 |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Music | Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk | ML410.B4 J58 1985 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |