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The art of preluding, with a focus on Johann Baptist Cramer's collections of 1818 and 1839

Lee, Yu-Ying

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Title
The art of preluding, with a focus on Johann Baptist Cramer's collections of 1818 and 1839
Author(s)
Lee, Yu-Ying
Issue Date
2020
Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)
Moersch, Charlotte Mattax
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Hobson, Ian
Committee Member(s)
  • Lund, Erik
  • Solya, Andrea
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)
  • Johann Baptist Cramer
  • preluding
  • Twenty-Six Preludes
  • Thirty-Six Preludes, Op. 91
  • The Art of Preluding, Op. 300
  • Original System of Preluding
  • Fantasia
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Language
en
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to reintroduce today’s pianists to the antiquated concept of preluding. To that end, this essay explores two little-known sets of preludes by the nineteenth-century composer Johann Baptist Cramer, the Twenty-Six Preludes or Short Introductions in the Principal Major and Minor Keys for the Piano Forte (1818) and Pensière Musicale, Thirty-Six Préludes Mélodique ou pensées musicales en forme de cadences, improvisations et caprice pour piano, Op. 91 (1839). A history of the prelude for keyboard precedes a stylistic investigation of representative preludes from Cramer’s collections. By analyzing Cramer’s preludes, focusing mainly on structure, harmonic progressions, and various figuration, this study provides a framework for today’s pianist learning how to construct a prelude in this style.
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Copyright 2020 Yu-Ying Lee

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