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Giuseppe Dall'Abaco was one of a small group of Italian cellists active as composers and performers in London at the midpoint of the eighteenth century. The majority of his cello sonatas, together with those of several cellist colleagues, appears in Manuscript 31528 (dated after 1760) at the British Library. Only four other Dall'Abaco cello sonatas are known to exist, and there is no record that any of his works were published during his lifetime. However, the first group of twelve sonatas in Manuscript 31528 appears to have been intended for publication since it is headed by an embryonic title page and the sonatas are arranged with regard to balance of key plan, increasing length, and progressively greater technical difficulty. Although it has been assumed that the sonatas were composed in the 1760s, this study will demonstrate that Dall'Abaco's nobility, acquired in 1766, was inscribed later on the title page of these sonatas; thus their actual date of composition presumably preceded this date. The sonatas, which exhibit style characteristics typical of the time of transition from the late baroque to the early classic era (primarily the decade of the 1740s), are shown to be a coherent collection because of common melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic gestures. Since four movements from the Dall'Abaco sonatas appear as the published works of "Signor Martino," dated 1745 by the British Library, Martino's sonatas are also evaluated. It will be shown that these four similar movements, two of which appear as part of the well-known Sonata in G major attributed to Giovanni Battista Sammartini, most probably have their origin in Dall'Abaco's manuscript. Although Martino's true identity has long been in dispute, this study will demonstrate that he was in fact the French cellist Martin Berteau. The eleven Dall'Abaco sonatas existing only in manuscript are transcribed in Part II. In Part III of this document, three of these manuscript sonatas have been realized and edited for modern performance.

In the years during the writing of The Craft of Musical Composition, and for the next few years afterwards, Hindemith was engaged in writing a solo sonata for each of the instruments of the orchestra. Muser states that this series of sonatas continues a definite policy of providing music for people who want to play music, and not merely to listen to it. The three sonatas for solo brass instruments and piano were written during this period. The sonatas, written for trumpet, horn, and trombone, were written in the following order: Sonata for Trumpet and Piano—1939; Sonata for Horn and Piano—1939; Sonata for Trombone and Piano—1941. These sonatas, being written rather closely together, should have certain stylistic characteristics in common, and there should also be certain features peculiar to each sonata. To study these sonatas and compare them with each other structurally and stylistically is the purpose of this work.

Title from accompanying document. / Janet Anschutz, piano ; Jerry Langenkamp, tenor. / Digitized by Kansas Correctional Industries

Title from accompanying document. / Mary Lyndal Nyberg, violin; S.E. Royall, piano. / Digitized by Kansas Correctional Industries

La tesi ha per oggetto l’analisi del personaggio protagonista delle Sonatas di Ramón del Valle-Inclán. Fra i migliori esempi di prosa modernista spagnola, le Sonatas sono le “memorias amables” di un dongiovanni “feo, católico y sentimental”: Xavier de Bradomín. Scopo dello studio è dimostrare quali caratteristiche avvicinano il personaggio allo stereotipo tradizionale del dongiovanni e quali lo rendono singolare, moderno e vicino alla personalità eccentrica dell’autore. Il primo capitolo contiene alcuni cenni biografici, un approfondimento sul contesto culturale che fa da sfondo all’attività letteraria di Valle-Inclán, riflessioni sull’atteggiamento assunto dalla critica nei suoi confronti e una prima introduzione ai temi delle Sonatas. Il secondo capitolo è incentrato sull’approfondimento dei contenuti, della lingua e dello stile della tetralogia. Gli ultimi due capitoli sono dedicati all’analisi dei romanzi, con particolare attenzione al confronto testuale che permette di sviluppare il discorso legato all’evoluzione del personaggio e alla relazione che questi stabilisce con l’autore. / The dissertation focuses on the analysis of the main character of the Sonatas by Ramón del Valle-Inclán. The four novels can be considered one of the main examples of Spanish Modernist prose and are presented by the author as the “memorias amables” of Xavier de Bradomín, a Don Juan “feo, católico y sentimental”. The dissertation describes the features of this character underlining the differences among the way he is presented in the tetralogy, the traditional features of the Don Juan stereotype and the expression of the originality and modernity of Valle-Inclán’s temperament. The first chapter includes a biographical note on the author, describes his cultural background, the critical panorama of Valle-Inclán’s literary production and the main themes of the Sonatas. The second chapter analyses the contents, language and style of the four novels. The third and fourth chapters provide a comparative analysis of the novels, with a specific interest for the evolution of the character and the main features he shares with his author.

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Franz Peter Schubert (1797-1828) began composition of the Sonata in C Major, D. 840 (“Reliquie”) during April of 1825. It was first published in Leipzig in 1861 and dubbed the “Reliquie” by the publisher K.F. Whistling, based on the mistaken assumption that it was Schubert’s last piano sonata. Following the complete Moderato and Andante movements, Schubert left the Minuetto: Allegretto and Rondo: Allegro movements unfinished. The primary purpose of this treatise is to compare and contrast the published completions of the unfinished Minuetto: Allegretto and Rondo: Allegro movements as finished by Ludwig Stark, Ernst Krenek, Walter Rehberg, Harold Truscott, Armin Knab, Paul Badura-Skoda, Dieter Einfeldt, Noël Lee, Martino Tirimo, Geoffrey Poole and Brian Newbould. / text

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