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Cambridge Companion to Haydn

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ISBN-10: 0521833477

ISBN-13: 9780521833479

Edition: 2005

Authors: Caryl Clark, Jonathan Cross

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This accessible introduction to the musical work and cultural world of Joseph Haydn covers his contemporaries, working environments and aesthetics. Chapters on the reception of his music explore keyboard performance practices, Haydn's posthumous reputation, recorded performances and revivals of his operas. The book surveys his major performance genre--including symphonies, string quartets, keyboard sonatas and trios, liturgical music, oratorios, etc...
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Book details

List price: $62.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/24/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 338
Size: 7.09" wide x 10.04" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English

Caryl Clark is Associate Professor of Music at the University of Toronto and Visual and Performing Arts at University of Toronto at Scarborough. Her publications about Haydn's operas appear in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, Studies in Music, Current Musicology, The Haydn Yearbook, and Early Music. She is co-editor of three special opera issues of The University of Opera Quarterly: Voices of Opera (1998); Opera and Interdisciplinarity (2003); and Opera and Interdisciplinarity II (2005).

Notes on contributors
Preface and acknowledgments
Chronology of Haydn's life and career
List of abbreviations
Haydn in context
Haydn's career and the idea of the multiple audience
A letter from the wilderness: revisiting Haydn's Esterhazy environments
Haydn's aesthetics
First among equals: Haydn and his fellow composers
Stylistic and interpretive contexts
Haydn and humor
Haydn's exoticisms: "difference" and the Enlightenment
Genres
Orchestral music: symphonies and concertos
The quartets
Intimate expression for a widening public: the keyboard sonatas and trios
Sacred music
The sublime and the pastoral in The Creation and The Seasons
Miscellaneous vocal genres
Haydn in the theater: the operas
Performance and reception
A composer, his dedicatee, her instrument, and I: thoughts on performing Haydn's keyboard sonatas
Haydn and posterity: the long nineteenth century
The kitten and the tiger: Tovey's Haydn
Recorded performances: a symphonic study
Notes
Bibliography
Index