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Engaging Haydn

Culture, Context, and Criticism

  • Editor: Hunter, Mary
  • Editor: Will, Richard
Comprising essays written by a distinguished group of leading scholars, this collection is remarkable for its critical insights, its methodological rigor, and its avoidance of trendy and tendential... More…

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Contents

  • Introduction Mary Hunter and Richard Will;
  • Part I . Cultures of Vocal Music:
  • 1. Fantasy island: Haydn's metastasian 'Reform' opera Elaine Sisman;
  • 2. Haydn invents Scotland Richard Will;
  • 3. Haydn's English canzonettas in their local context Katalin Komlos;
  • 4. Revolution, rebirth and the sublime in Haydn's L'anima del filosofo and The Creation Caryl Clark;
  • 5. 'Achieved is the glorious work': the creation and the choral work concept Nicholas Mathew;
  • Part II . Analytical Readings and Rereadings:
  • 6. Imagination, continuity, and form in the first movements of Haydn's Opus 77 Quartets Lewis Lockwood;
  • 7. Does Haydn have a 'C-minor mood'? Jessica Waldoff;
  • 8. Form, rhetoric, and the reception of Haydn's Rondo Finales Michelle Fillion;
  • 9. Haydn and the Metamorphoses of Ovid Pierpaolo Polzonetti;
  • 10. Credo ut intelligam: Haydn's reading of the Credo text Tom Beghin;
  • Part III . Performance:
  • 11. Haydn's string quartet fingerings: communications to performer and audience Mary Hunter;
  • 12. Haydn's orchestras and his orchestration to 1779, with an excursus on the times of day symphonies Neal Zaslaw; Bibliography.