Haydn's 'Farewell' Symphony and the Idea of Classical Style Through-Composition and Cyclic Integration in His Instrumental Music

Name: Haydn's 'Farewell' Symphony and the Idea of Classical Style Through-Composition and Cyclic Integration in His Instrumental Music
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ISBN: 9780521612012

ISBN-10: 0521612012

ISBN-13: 9780521612012

Edition: 2004

Authors: James Webster, Ian Bent

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This volume offers a new view of Joseph Haydn's instrumental music. It argues that many of Haydn's greatest and most characteristic instrumental works are 'through-composed' in the sense that their several movements are bound together into a cycle. This cyclic integration is articulated, among other ways, by the 'progressive' form of individual movements, structural and gestural links between the movements, and extramusical associations. Central to the study is a detailed and comprehensive analysis of the 'Farewell' Symphony, No. 45 in F sharp minor (1772). The analysis is distinguished by its systematic use of different methods (Toveyan formalism, Schenkerian voice leading, Schoenbergian…

Book details

List price: $39.99
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/11/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 424
Size: 7.44" wide x 9.69" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.650
Language: English



Foreword



Preface


Authors note


List of abbreviations


Introduction



The Farewell Symphony



The construction of the whole



Instability



Resolution



The program



Cyclic Organization in Haydns Instrumental Music



Progressive form and the rhetoric of instability



Integration of the cycle



Extramusical associations



Individual compositions


Historiographical conclusion


Bibliography


Index