This presentation demonstrates the significance both historically and aesthetically of the obscure Portuguese composer Carlos Seixas, (1704-1742), to the development of the keyboard sonata during the transitional period between the Baroque and Classic eras. The relationship between Seixas and his better-known colleague Domenico Scarlatti is explored and particular musical styles and techniques generally assumed as innovations of the latter composer are shown to exist in keyboard works of Seixas which probably pre-date those of Scarlatti. Thematically-related multi-movement sonatas and structural techniques anticipating the ternary single-movement sonata design are illustrated in several of Seixas1 sonatas. In addition to the recorded performance of selected sonatas by Seixas, this dissertation includes three tape recordings of selected piano works by J. S. Bach, Barber, Beethoven, Chopin, Franck, Prokofieff, and Scriabin.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc330752 |
| Date | 08 1900 |
| Creators | Allison, Brian J. (Brian Jerome) |
| Contributors | Han, Tong-il, 1941-, Collins, Michael (Michael B.), 1930-2011, Brown, Charles S. (Organist) |
| Publisher | North Texas State University |
| Source Sets | University of North Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | xii, 24 leaves : music, Text |
| Rights | Public, Allison, Brian J. (Brian Jerome), Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved. |
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