Este estudo do primeiro movimento da Sonata II para piano de Bruno Kiefer parte do ponto de vista do executante. Reunindo cartas, documentos e outras evidências do arquivo do compositor, apresenta uma análise que expõe uma concepção pessoal dos significados referenciais transmitidos pela obra. O entendimento da linguagem musical do compositor, obtido através dos processos composicionais e dos ambientes emocionais constituem-se em ferramentas de suporte para a interpretação. / This study approaches the first movement of Bruno Kiefer’s Piano Sonata II from the performer standpoint. Based on letters and other archival material as well as an extensive analysis of compositional elements, the author presents referencial meanings related to emotional states resulting in an interpretive analysis.

Este estudo do primeiro movimento da Sonata II para piano de Bruno Kiefer parte do ponto de vista do executante. Reunindo cartas, documentos e outras evidências do arquivo do compositor, apresenta uma análise que expõe uma concepção pessoal dos significados referenciais transmitidos pela obra. O entendimento da linguagem musical do compositor, obtido através dos processos composicionais e dos ambientes emocionais constituem-se em ferramentas de suporte para a interpretação. / This study approaches the first movement of Bruno Kiefer’s Piano Sonata II from the performer standpoint. Based on letters and other archival material as well as an extensive analysis of compositional elements, the author presents referencial meanings related to emotional states resulting in an interpretive analysis.

Este estudo do primeiro movimento da Sonata II para piano de Bruno Kiefer parte do ponto de vista do executante. Reunindo cartas, documentos e outras evidências do arquivo do compositor, apresenta uma análise que expõe uma concepção pessoal dos significados referenciais transmitidos pela obra. O entendimento da linguagem musical do compositor, obtido através dos processos composicionais e dos ambientes emocionais constituem-se em ferramentas de suporte para a interpretação. / This study approaches the first movement of Bruno Kiefer’s Piano Sonata II from the performer standpoint. Based on letters and other archival material as well as an extensive analysis of compositional elements, the author presents referencial meanings related to emotional states resulting in an interpretive analysis.

The purpose of this paper is to identify Spanish elements in the sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti and to determine the extent of their use. All 555 sonatas in facsimile edition, edited by Ralph Kirkpatrick, were compared to the printed anthologies of Spanish folk music by Kurt Schindler and Felipe Pedrell as well as recordings of authentic Spanish folk music. The study concludes that Scarlatti incorporated Spanish musical elements extensively. In some sonatas, fragments of folk tunes occur, but always with some rhythmical alterations or melodic elaborations. Only K. 513 contains an entire folk tune. Scarlatti evidently wrote melodies of folk-like quality and did not merely copy the folk tunes.

The purpose of this study is to examine Sonata No. 2 in detail from many analytical perspectives including melodies, rhythms, harmonic progressions, tonal plans, voice leading, and cadential patterns on macro- and micro-levels. It is believed that a more in-depth discussion of the composition from the perspective of harmony and voice leading may provide answer for the questions raised, and correct some misinterpretations in the works of certain writers. Furthermore, through analysis of Sonata No. 2. this study will show the relationship of the use of formal, stylistic, harmonic features between Mendelssohn and other composers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

These four sonatas of William Flackton (1709-1798) are probably the earliest collection of sonata literature written for the viola. They exist with a few other string sonatas from the Baroque period in England. It is essential to establish their place in English baroque music and to develop a performance milieu or stylistic preference that leads up to and lasts through the time span of Flackton's sonatas. The final tool to establish an interpretive plan will be to present a general analysis of the four sonatas with special emphasis on the D major sonata (opus 2, no. 4).

George Walker, pianist, composer and pedagogue, composed piano sonatas in 1953, 1957, 1975, and 1984. The Sonata No. 4 demonstrates the composer's continued fascination with a relaxation of traditional forms, coloristic effects of persistent interval combinations, incorporation of folk elements into his thematic material, and harmonic and rhythmic underpinnings as structural bases to his work.

Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983) was one of the leading South American composers of the twentieth century. Born in Argentina at a time when his country was striving to achieve a national identity and culture, Ginastera was recognized for combining the techniques of Western European art music with elements of Argentine folk music. His piano sonatas, composed during both his early and late periods, serve as excellent examples of this cultural synthesis throughout the course of his career. The Sonata No. 1 for Piano Op. 22 (1954), Sonata No. 2 for Piano Op. 53 (1981), and Sonata No. 3 for Piano Op. 54 (1982) have been analyzed and discussed in recent scholarship. Theorists have identified Western techniques such as sonata-rondo form, serialism, and symmetry in his compositions. Yet, when addressing rhythm, scholars have focused primarily on highlighting the Argentine dance or Amerindian rhythm that the music exemplifies and have neglected to apply Western analytical tools for analyzing rhythm. The goal of this paper is to approach rhythm and meter in the piano sonatas from a new perspective in order to identify Ginastera’s Western European musical techniques. Attention will be given to Ginastera’s use of and denial of metric hierarchy and periodicity. The paper will also focus on consonant and dissonant rhythms in the piano sonatas, as well as additive and subtractive rhythms. Because any discussion of rhythm and meter in Ginastera’s music cannot ignore its nationalistic origins, the paper provides an introductory chapter that discusses Argentine dance iii rhythms. However, the bulk of the paper aims to provide analyses from a Western art music viewpoint that illustrate Ginastera’s compositional manipulation of rhythm and meter.

It is the purpose of this thesis to determine the comparative differences and similarities of the accompanied violin sonatas of the two contemporary eighteenth-century composers, Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frederick Handel.

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