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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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Contents

  • 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