Title: Haydn /
Authors: Wyn Jones, David,
Date: 2015
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing LImited,
Physical description: xxv, 527 pages : illustrations, music ; 25 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: M
Contents: Life and legacy. The earliest biographies of Haydn / Vernon Gotwals -- A patron among peers: dedications to Haydn and the economy of celebrity / Emily Green -- the falling-out between Haydn and Beethoven: the evidence of the sources / James Webster -- The consequences of presumed innocence: the nineteenth-century reception of Joseph Haydn / Leon Botstein -- Creative impulses. "The true fundamentals of composition": Haydn's partimento counterpoint / Felix Diergarten -- Haydn's theater symphonies / Elaine R. Sisman -- Haydn, Goldoni, and Il mondo della luna / Michael Brago -- Engaging strategies in Haydn's Opus 33 string quartets / Gretchen A. Wheelock -- Of saints, name days, and Turks: some background on Haydn's masses written for Prince Nikolaus II Esterházy / Jeremiah W. McGrann -- Aesthetic frontiers. Haydn, Laurence Sterne, and the origins of musical irony / Mark Evan Bonds -- Expressive ambivalence in Haydn's symphonic slow movements of the 1770s / W. Dean Sutcliffe -- Recalling the sublime: the logic of creation in Haydn's Creation / Lawrence Kramer -- Heroic Haydn, the occasional work and "modern" political music / Nicholas Mathew -- Enlightened performance. On the absence of keyboard continuo in Haydn's symphonies / James Webster -- Haydn's tempos in The creation / Nicholas Temperley -- Trends, accomplishment, deficiency in Haydn performance today / László Somfai -- "Delivery, delivery, delivery!": crowning the rhetorical process of Haydn's keyboard sonatas / Tom Beghin -- Playing with art: musical arrangements as educational tools in van Swieten's Vienna / Wiebke Thormählen.
Subject headings (LCSH): Haydn, Joseph, 1732-1809--Criticism and interpretation.; Haydn, Joseph, 1732-1809.; Music--Austria--18th century--History and criticism.; Music--Austria--18th century.