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A performance guide for pianists to selected keyboard pieces by Jacques Duphly

Mu, Tong

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Title
A performance guide for pianists to selected keyboard pieces by Jacques Duphly
Author(s)
Mu, Tong
Issue Date
2018
Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)
  • Moersch, Charlotte Mattax
  • Tsitsaros, Christos
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Moersch, Charlotte Mattax
Committee Member(s)
  • Ehlen, Timothy
  • Heiles, William
Department of Study
School of Music
Discipline
Music
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
A.Mus.D. (doctoral)
Keyword(s)
  • French Baroque music:Jacques Duphly
  • Harpsichord
  • Performance practice
  • Piano pedagogy
  • Style Brisé
  • Baroque dance
  • Ornamentation
Language
en
Abstract
This study explores keyboard compositions by Jacques Duphly, a French Baroque composer, and investigates the suitability of his pieces for pianists from a pedagogical and performance perspective. Some of Duphly’s compositions feature French traditional elements such as style brisé, ornamentation, and dance genres, while many others indicate a strong Italian influence. In his last harpsichord volume, Quatrième livre, Duphly included pre-classical elements such as the Alberti bass. Historical background is given in Chapter I, including a biography of the composer, basic information about the harpsichord and the modern piano, and general recommendations for how harpsichord music may be adapted to the piano. Chapter II explores issues surrounding the performance practice of French Baroque compositions, with an emphasis on Duphly’s keyboard music, such as musical forms, tempo, articulation, rhythmic alteration, style brisé, ornamentation, and Baroque dance genres. Chapter III provides a performance guide for pianists to selected compositions from Duphly’s four harpsichord collections: Premier livre (1744), Deuxième livre (1748), Troisième livre (1756), and Quatrième livre (1768). The performance guide suggests a tempo for each piece as well as realizations of ornaments and special effects, fingerings, dynamics, rhythmic alterations and articulations.
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Copyright 2018 Tong Mu

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