Haydn and the performance of rhetoric / edited by Tom Beghin and Sander M. Goldberg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Beghin, Tom, 1967-

Goldberg, Sander M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Haydn, Joseph, 1732-1809--Criticism and interpretation.

Haydn, Joseph.

Haydn, Joseph, 1732-1809.

Music--18th century--History and criticism.

Music.

Music and rhetoric.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xx, 366 pages : illustrations (some color), music ; 24 cm+ 1 DVD-ROM (sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.

System Details:

System requirements for accompanying DVD-ROM: Pentium 4/G4 processsor or better; 512 Mb RAM or higher; web browser.

Contents:

A visit to the Salon de Parnasse / Elisabeth Le Guin

Backgrounds. Performing theory : variations on a theme by Quintilian / Sander M. Goldberg ; Ut rhetorica artes : the rhetorical theory of the sister arts / Timothy Erwin ; School, stage, salon : musical cultures in Haydn's Vienna / James Van Horn Melton ; Rhetoric versus truth : listening to Haydn in the age of Beethoven / Mark Evan Bonds

Foregrounds. Delivery, delivery, delivery! : crowning the rhetorical process of Haydn's keyboard sonatas / Tom Beghin ; The rhetoric of improvisation in Haydn's keyboard music / James Webster ; Clever orator versus bold innovator / László Somfai

The poetry of Haydn's songs : sexuality, repetition, whimsy / Marshall Brown ; Haydn's London trios and the rhetoric of the grotesque / Annette Richards ; Rhetorical truth in Haydn's chamber music : genre, tertiary rhetoric, and the opus 76 quartets / Elaine Sisman.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-353) and index.

Local Notes:

Library lacks DVD-ROM.

ISBN:

9780226041292

0226041298

OCLC:

123912585