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Engaging haydn: culture, context, and criticism.
Haydn is enjoying renewed appreciation: this book explores fresh approaches to his music and the cultural forces affecting it.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Engaging Haydn; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART I: Cultures of vocal music; 1: Fantasy island: Haydn's Metastasian "reform" opera; Epistolary self-promotion; A perfect storm:social and musical connections; Milestones of the year 1779:entrepreneurship, love, empire; Stones in the island garden; Costanza and Orfeo in the labyrinth; Genre; Abstract; 2: Haydn invents Scotland; The poems; The melodies; Haydn's arrangements for William Napier (1791-95); The arrangements for George Thomson (1800-04); The end of an old song?; Abstract.
- 3: Haydn's English canzonettas in their local contextThe canzonets of Arnold, Storace, Schetky, and Shield; Pre-history of Haydn's canzonettas; Haydn's canzonettas and English songs; Types and genres; I: Pastoral; sea song; II: Elegy; Elaborate melodies in strophic form: "Recollection"; "Despair"; Stile retorico elegies: The Wanderer"; "The Spirit's Song"; "She Never Told Her Love"; III:Aria; "pre-Romantic" song: "Fidelity"; "Content"; "O Tuneful Voice"; Keyboard style and texture; Appendix; Abstract.
- 4: Revolution, rebirth, and the sublime in Haydn's L'anima del filosofo and The CreationEnglish connections; The creation myth embedded in the Orpheus myth; Badini's and Haydn's anti-hero Orpheus; Musical links between L'anima del filosofo and The Creation; Why an Orpheus opera?; Abstract; 5: "Achieved is the glorious work": The Creation and the choral work concept; Abstract; Part II: Analytical readings and rereadings; 6: Imagination, continuity, and form in the first movements of Haydn's Opus 77 quartets; I; Exposition; Development and false recapitulation; Recapitulation; II; Exposition.
- The Creation Credo: a trinitarian readingThe Nelson Credo: a christological reading; Conclusion; Abstract; Appendix; Appendix Graph 1 Creation Credo; Appendix Graph 2 Nelson Credo; Part III: Performance; 11: Haydn's string quartet fingerings: communications to performer and audience; Fingerings and the relation between composer and performer; Fingerings and the listener; Appendix: table of fingerings in Haydn's string quartets; 12: Haydn's orchestras and his orchestration to 1779, with an excursus on the Times-of-Day symphonies; Introduction; I: Haydn and the "outside world."