The keyboard sonatas of Marianna Martines (1744-1812) : contexts for performance, accompanied by a new edition from the earliest sources
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Patricia Garcia Gil (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
- Advisor
- Andrew Willis
Abstract: This document encompasses the creation of an edition of the three surviving sonatas of Marianna Martines, the singer, pianist, and composer who shared fame and stage with the greatest musicians of the eighteenth century, together with a companion document that contextualizes her career and her three surviving keyboard sonatas. By considering her education, influences, and connections in her youth and mature years, I will comment on her compositional style and then explain how to read her notation according to the common musical language of the time. My suggestions will be supported by the most relevant eighteenth-century treatises and followed by a newly edited score with editorial notes. Most currently available sources for the sonatas are intrusively edited, and none includes extensive notes based on historically informed practices. The intention behind this new edition is to provide an accessible resource with the aim of advancing equity and diversity in the classical music canon by making the keyboard works of an important woman composer available in an edition that accurately reflects the original sources, namely, the first editions of the Sonatas in E and A Major, published in 1762 and 1765, and the 1769 manuscript copy of the Sonata in G Major.
The keyboard sonatas of Marianna Martines (1744-1812) : contexts for performance, accompanied by a new edition from the earliest sources
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Dissertation
- Language: English
- Date: 2024
- Keywords
- Eighteenth-Century Galant, Fortepiano Harpsichord, Historical Keyboards, Historically Informed Performance, Marianna Martines, Women Composers