The Cambridge companion to Haydn / edited by Caryl Clark.

Other author Clark, Caryl Leslie, 1953- editor.
Format Book
Publication InfoCambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Descriptionxx, 318 pages : maps, music ; 26 cm
Subjects

Contents Haydn's career and the idea of the multiple audience / Elaine Sisman -- Letter from the wilderness: revisiting Haydn's Esterházy environments / Rebecca Green -- Haydn's aesthetics / James Webster -- First among equals: Haydn and his fellow composers / David Wyn Jones -- Haydn and humor / Scott Burnham -- Haydn's exoticisms: "difference" and the Enlightenment / Matthew Head -- Orchestral music: symphonies and concertos / David Schroeder -- Quartets / Mary Hunter -- Intimate expression for a widening public: the keyboard sonatas and trios / Michelle Fillion -- Sacred music / James Dack -- Sublime and the pastoral in The creation and The seasons / James Webster -- Miscellaneous vocal genres / Katalin Komlós -- Haydn in the theatre: the operas / Caryl Clark -- Composer, his dedicatee, her instrument, and I: thoughts on performing Haydn's keyboard sonatas / Tom Beghin -- Haydn and posterity: the long nineteenth century / James Garrett -- Kitten and the tiger: Tovey's Haydn / Lawrence Kramer -- Recorded performances: a symphonic study / Melanie Lowe.
Abstract This Companion provides an accessible and up-to-date introduction to the musical work and cultural world of Joseph Haydn. Readers will gain an understanding of the changing social, cultural, and political spheres in which Haydn studied, worked, and nurtured his creative talent. The book surveys the major genres in which Haydn wrote, including symphonies, string quartets, keyboard sonatas and trios, sacred music, miscellaneous vocal genres, and operas composed for Eszterhaza and London.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 292-310) and index.
LCCN 2005003945
ISBN0521833477 (hardcover)
ISBN0521541077 (paperback)
ISBN9780521833479 (hardcover)
ISBN9780521541077 (paperback)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Music Music Stacks ML410.H4 C17 2005 ✔ Available Place Hold