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.