Sir William Herschel (1738–1822) was a prominent musician and composer in the 18th century England. He worked as a concert director in several cities. In addition, he was a master of various instruments, and an active solo performer. Herschel composed numerous orchestral and solo works. His music, however, is hardly known today. Many of his compositions remained unpublished, among them the Twenty-Four Caprices for Solo Violin. These caprices are one of the earliest technical studies for the instrument, which must be brought to the intermediate violin students’ and violin teachers’ attentions. The purpose of this study is to create a practical edition of the Twenty-Four Caprices for Solo Violin, and to make it available for violinists by publishing them. The dissertation will look into the performance practice of Hershel’s caprices. Based on a thorough research of the violin methods, the edition will provide fingerings, bowings, and practicing suggestions which are useful for students who wish to improve violin technique. The author of this study strongly believes that these neglected technical studies are extremely beneficial works for violinists, and they deserve to be made public.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-12-08T17:06:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 rodrigo.pdf: 2412265 bytes, checksum: c47ad406e5e63dd52e37553b192af174 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-09-15 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This study investigated practical and Urtext editions of the piano sonatas by Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), departing from differences in the notation and interpretation of articulations and ornaments. Chapter I presents the review of literature on notation and instrument interpretation in the eighteenth century; Chapter II presents the piano sonatas by Haydn and aspects of musical notation related to the sonatas; Chapter III presents a comparatives analysis of practical and Urtext editions of Haydn piano sonatas. Finally, we applied to a group of pianists a questionnaire related to the subject of the research, to verify the interpretative posture of each subject before the different types of music publishing. The main contribution of the present study is the assessment of the functions and uses of practical and Urtext editions, with a focus on the changes in the performance practice of Haydn piano sonatas / Neste trabalho foram pesquisadas edições práticas e edições Urtext de sonatas para piano de Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) a partir de diferenças na notação e realização de articulações e ornamentos. O Capítulo I consta a Revisão de Literatura sobre notação e realização instrumental no século XVIII; o Capítulo II refere-se às Sonatas para Piano de Joseph Haydn e seus aspectos notacionais; no Capítulo III é realizado um estudo comparativo entre edições práticas e edições Urtext de sonatas para piano de Joseph Haydn; por fim, foi aplicado um questionário a um grupo de pianistas com perguntas relacionadas ao tema da pesquisa, a fim de verificar a postura interpretativa de cada um dos sujeitos perante os diferentes tipos de edição musical. Como contribuição principal, com esta pesquisa buscou-se avaliar as funções e usos de edições práticas e edições Urtext, destacando-se também mudanças nas práticas de execução de sonatas para piano de Haydn