Haydn and the performance of rhetoric
By: edited by Tom Beghin and Sander M. Goldberg
Contributors: Beghin, Tom, 1967-; Goldberg, Sander M
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9780226041292
Subjects: Haydn, Joseph, -- 1732-1809 -- Criticism and interpretation; Music -- 18th century -- History and criticism; Music and rhetoric
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-353) and indexes
Table of contents: title: A visit to the Salon de Parnasse / Elisabeth Le Guin; title: 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; title: 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; title: 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