Title: Studies in music history :
Authors: Biba, Otto.; Wyn Jones, David.; Landon, H. C. Robbins
Date: 1996
Publisher: Thames and Hudson,
Physical description: 272 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, music ; 26 cm
Language: English
LC classification: M
Abstract: On March 6, 1996, H. C. Robbins Landon, one of the world's leading experts on composers of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, celebrated his seventieth birthday. To mark this event friends and professional colleagues in Europe and the USA have contributed scholarly studies to this commemorative volume. The range of their subject-matter relates closely to the dedicatee's own special interests, and the contributions (some in English, some in German) reflect the esteem in which H. C. Robbins Landon is held internationally.
Contents: Editors' Preface / Otto Biba and David Wyn Jones -- 'The music very good indeed': Scarlatti's Tolomeo et Alessandro recovered / Malcolm Boyd -- Haydn's Pastorellas: Genre, Dating and Transmission in the early Church works / Geoffrey Chew -- The Sublime, the Beautiful and the Ornamental: English Aesthetic Currents and Haydn's London Symphonies / A. Peter Brown -- The Contract between Joseph Haydn and Frederick Augustus Hyde (1796) / Albi Rosenthal -- In praise of arrangements: the 'Symphony Quintetto' / Christopher Hogwood -- From Artaria to Longman & Broderip: Mozart's music on sale in London / David Wyn Jones -- Die Wiener Freimaurer unter Kaiser Leopold II.: Mozarts Zauberflote als emblematische Standortbestimmung / Walther Brauneis -- Nachrichten uber Joseph Haydn, Michael Haydn und Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in der Sammlumg der handschriftlichen Biographien der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien / Otto Biba -- Musikerportraits in der Sammlung Lavater / Gerda Mraz -- Bestande mit mehrstimmigen Musikhandschriften Aus Kloster, Stifts, und Domkirchen in Bayern seit dem 16. Jahrhundert / Robert Munster -- Die adeligen Musikkapellen im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert in Mahren / Jiri Sehnal -- Wissen - Intuition - Mode: Faktoren der Interpretation / Nikolaus Harnoncourt -- H. C. Robbins Landon and the Haydn Society: a pioneering musical adventure / Christopher Raeburn -- H. C. Robbins Landon: a Bibliography / Judith Agus.
Notes: Includes index. Ill. on lining papers.
Subject headings (LCSH): Composition (Music)--History.; Haydn, Joseph, 1732-1809--Criticism and interpretation.; Music--18th century--History and criticism.; Music--19th century--History and criticism.; Music--Austria--History and criticism.