Pastoral Images in the Minuets of Haydn's Keyboard Sonatas

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Amina I. Asfandiarova

Abstract

Despite their popularity and facility of performing,
Haydn's piano sonatas present unique artistic world. They
are a mystery for both music theorists and performers.
The lacking of manifested emotional contrasts and sound
density often creates obstacles for interpretation and
results in exclusion of Haydn's sonatas from the concert
programs. Very often Haydn's music is played with
Romantic sound, «expressive and songful,» in a pompous
and overly affective fashion.
In this respect, it seems important to apply semiotic
methods, the study of relationship of musical text and its
performer in general, and the musical lexicography and
etymology of musical meanings in particular. The Russian
scholarship of the recent decades operates with the notions
of intonational lexic, semantic figure, and lexeme.
As a result of application of semantic analysis the
content of Haydn's music becomes perceptible not only on
the empirical and intuitive levels, but on the level of concrete
approaches and methods of realization.

Keywords: Haydn, keyboard sonata, minuet, pastoral,
semiotic method, musical lexicography, intonational lexics,
semantic figure, lexeme

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How to Cite
Asfandiarova, A. I. (2009). Pastoral Images in the Minuets of Haydn’s Keyboard Sonatas. Music Scholarship / Problemy Muzykal’noj Nauki, 4(1), 72–78. Retrieved from https://musicscholar.ru/index.php/PMN/article/view/687
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International Division
Author Biography

Amina I. Asfandiarova, Ufa State Academy of Arts named after Zagir Ismagilov

Candidate of Arts,
Professor of Piano Dean of Student Affairs

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