Making Light: Haydn, Musical Camp, and the Long Shadow of German Idealism
- Author: Knapp, Raymond
As a writer and thinker, Raymond Knapp is a congenial musicologist-eschewing the obscurities of hard theoretical labor and preferring colorful insights. Highly recommended." -- M. Dineen —
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$138.50Contents
- List of Musical Examples ix
- Preface xi
- Acknowledgments xvii
- About the Companion Website xxi
- Part I. Approached the Absolute
- 1. Idealizing Music 3
- Part II. Haydn's Difference
- 2. Entertaining Possibilities in Haydn's Symphonies 53
- 3. Haydn, the String Quartet, and the (D)evolution of the Chamber Ideal 101
- Part III. New World Dualities
- 4. Popular Music contra German Idealism: Anglo-American Rebellions from Minstrelsy to Camp 137
- 5. "Popular Music" qua German Idealism: Authenticity and Its Outliers 221
- 6. Musical Virtues and Vices in the Latter-Day New World 253
- Appendix A. More Extended Musical Examples 279
- Appendix B. Listing of Video Examples from Films 293
- Notes 295
- Bibliography 343
- Index 367