Haydn and his contemporaries
By: edited by Sterling Murray
Publisher: Steglein Pub.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9780981985022
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; History and criticism; Music
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part 1: Haydn: Michael Haydn's Wanderjahre (1754-1759) : where was he, and when? / Charles H. Sherman ; The earliest biographies of Haydn and the ideals of normalcy / Ellis Anderson ; Haydn, Handel and the concerts of ancient music / Graydon Beeks ; Haydn's debt to Cimarosa / Ethan Haimo ; Tonal diversity and formal variety in Haydn's Seven last words / James S. MacKay ; Methods of large-scale rhythmic and tonal organization as stylistic features of Haydn's instrumental music / Jason Yust ; Middles and muddles : Haydn's compositional style and sonata forms / Jan Miyake; title: Part 2: Haydn's contemporaries: Court musicians at Anhalt-Zerbst : new sources for eighteenth-century employment practices / Barbara M. Reul ; The French vocal romance and the sorrows of exile in the early American republic / Emily Laurance ; Federalists, immigrants, and wild Irish savages : the development and influence on national identity in the eighteenth-century American symphony / Bertil van Boer ; A reassessment of Carl Friedrich Zelter's compositional career through his Viola concerto in E-flat major / Paul Luongo ; Thomas Alexander Erskine (1732-1781) and the practice of modeling / Matthew J. McAllister ; European music in colonial America : the Moravians as transmitters of a culture / Nola Reed Knouse.