Exploring Haydn
Subtitle: a listener's guide to music's boldest innovator / David Hurwitz.
Series: Unlocking the masters series ;; No. 6
Publisher: Amadeus Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Pompton Plains, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
Subjects: Haydn, Joseph, 1732-1809 -- Criticism and interpretation
Description: CDs include selected pieces described in the book.
Table of contents: title: Inventing music as we know it (and why this turned out to be a mixed blessing); title: How to listen to complete works; title: Haydn in his own words; title: Movement types in Haydn's instrumental music; title: Overview; title: First movements; title: Slow movements; title: Minuets/scherzos; title: Finales (grand and otherwise); title: A topical view; title: Vocal works, sacred and secular; title: Solitary masterworks; title: From tragedy to comedy : Haydn's war on blandness; title: Conclusion : the road forward.