The Characteristic Symphony in the Age of Haydn and Beethoven

ISBN-13: 9780521802017 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 344 str.

Richard James Will; Ruth Solie; Jeffrey Kallberg

Opis

Characteristic symphonies have texts associating them with literature, politics, religion, and other aspects of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century European culture. Examining both the music and its aesthetic and social contexts, this first full-length study of the genre demonstrates how symphonies constructed individual and collective identities through their subjects, representing emotion, human bodily movement, and the passage of time. Examples discussed include the Pastoral and Eroica symphonies of Beethoven and works by Haydn, Dittersdorf, and other composers of the era. An Appendix provides a thematic index of the entire repertory.

Recenzje

'… [this book] is never less than challenging and, at its best, is dazzlingly virtuosic.' Eighteenth-Century Music

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Paradise lost; 2. Preaching the emotions; 3. The boundaries of the art; 4. Paradise regained; 5. Making memories; Appendixes: 1. Thematic index of characteristic symphonies; 2. Pastoral symphonies and movements; 3. Symphonies and movements by subject.