Reinterpreting Ysaÿe’s Annotations - Franck's Sonata - Audio Examples
(2024)
author(s): Joanna Staruch-Smolec
published in: Research Catalogue
This website provides musical examples linked to my analyses of Eugène Ysaÿe's annotations on scores of César Franck's 'Sonate pour piano et violon'. It is an appendix to the article: Joanna Staruch-Smolec, 'Reinterpreting Ysaÿe’s Annotations. Musical sources relating to Franck’s Sonata in Viola Mitchell’s collection (Juilliard School Library)', Revue belge de Musicologie, 2025.
The influence of Scarlatti Sonatas in the evolution of the Classical Sonata
(last edited: 2023)
author(s): Lara Šac
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Although it has its roots before, the sonata started to develop in the late Baroque era, mainly in the time of Domenico Scarlatti, who composed 555 keyboard sonatas. It was Scarlatti who contributed to the growth and development of the Classical sonata. This research is based on formerly written books and articles.
Dolce Napoli: Approaches for performance
(last edited: 2023)
author(s): Inês de Avena Braga
connected to: Academy of Creative and Performing Arts
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This thesis of Inês de Avena Braga examined two previously neglected topics, Baroque Italian recorders and the Neapolitan Baroque repertoire for the recorder, and then combined both aspects. First, information was collected on all Italian Baroque recorders currently known, including biographical references about the makers of these recorders, as well as technical drawings, measurements and photographs. The practical experience with the copies of a few of those recorders was described by the author. Second, the Baroque repertoire composed in Naples for the recorder was researched, uncovering a rich and forgotten corpus of music written and copied between 1695 and 1759. The Neapolitan recorder works were also listed with a brief analysis and further commentary on the recorder part, with a view of connecting the works with the instruments that might have once been used to play them. Furthermore, an overview of the social and cultural atmosphere of Naples in the early eighteenth century was offered as contextualization to the musical ambience, aided by iconographical references. Conclusions on performance practice are presented as a result of the combination of both research aspects. The artistic outcome of this study has brought together, also in performance, the two main aspects of the research: 'new' instruments and 'new' works.
