Engaging Haydn : culture, context, and criticism / edited by Mary Hunter and Richard Will.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hunter, Mary Kathleen, 1951- editor.

Will, Richard James, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Haydn, Joseph.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 349 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Haydn is enjoying renewed appreciation as one of the towering figures of Western music history. This lively collection builds upon this resurgence of interest, with chapters exploring the nature of Haydn's invention and the cultural forces that he both absorbed and helped to shape and express. The volume addresses Haydn's celebrated instrumental pieces, the epoch-making Creation and many lesser-known but superb vocal works including the Masses, the English canzonettas and Scottish songs and the operas L'isola disabitata and L'anima del filosofo. Topics range from Haydn's rondo forms to his violin fingerings, from his interpretation of the Credo to his reading of Ovid's Metamorphoses, from his involvement with national music to his influence on the emerging concept of the musical work. Haydn emerges as an engaged artist in every sense of the term, as remarkable for his critical response to the world around him as for his innovations in musical composition.

Contents:

Introduction / Mary Hunter and Richard Will

Part I : Cultures of vocal music

Fantasy island : Haydn's metastasian "reform" opera / Elaine Sisman

Haydn invents Scotland / Richard Will

Haydn's English canzonettas in their local context / Katalin Komlos

Revolution, rebirth and the sublime in Haydn's L'anima del filosofo and The Creation / Caryl Clark

"Achieved is the glorious work" : The Creation and the choral work concept / Nicholas Mathew

Part II Analytical readings and rereadings

Imagination, continuity, and form in the first movements of Haydn's opus 77 quartets / Lewis Lockwood

Does Haydn have a "C-minor mood"? / Jessica Waldoff

Form, rhetoric, and the reception of Haydn's rondo finales / Michelle Fillion

Haydn and the Metamorphoses of Ovid / Pierpaolo Polzonetti

Credo ut intelligam : Haydn's reading of the Credo text / Tom Beghin

Part III : Performance

Haydn's string quartet fingerings : communications to performer and audience / Mary Hunter

Haydn's orchestras and his orchestration to 1779, with an excursus on the times-of-day symphonies / Neal Zaslaw.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-139-54002-5

1-107-23011-X

1-283-52206-3

1-139-52724-X

9786613834515

1-139-52604-9

1-139-05771-5

1-139-53190-5

1-139-53071-2

1-139-52843-2

OCLC:

804664876