Cambridge Haydn Encyclopedia

An authoritative, accessible reference work that brings together current knowledge and new interpretive insights into Haydn's music and cultural influence.

List of contents

Preface and guide to readers; Acknowledgments; List of figures; List of musical examples; List of contributors; Chronology; Abbreviations; List of entries and essays; A-Z entries and essays; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Caryl Clark is Professor of Music History and Culture at the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto, and a Fellow of Trinity College. Editor of the Cambridge Companion to Haydn (Cambridge, 2005), and author of Haydn's Jews: Representation and Reception on the Operatic Stage (Cambridge, 2009), her research interests include Enlightenment aesthetics, Haydn, interdisciplinary opera studies, Orpheus, and the politics of musical reception – all generously funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.Sarah Day-O'Connell is Associate Professor in the Department of Music at Skidmore College, New York. A recipient of the Pauline Alderman Award for Outstanding Scholarship on Women and Music, she has held research fellowships at Yale University, Connecticut, the British Library, and the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh. She has published on Haydn, the social contexts of singing, music and gender, theories of performance, and music studies within the liberal arts.

Summary

Synthesizes current knowledge and provides new interpretive insights into Joseph Haydn's life, work and cultural influence. This concept-driven encyclopedia lends itself to integrative, interdisciplinary thinking and will be of interest to scholars, students, conductors, performers, concert-goers, and music-lovers.

Product details

• Authors: Caryl (University of Toronto) Day-O''''conn Clark
• Assisted by: Caryl Clark (Editor), Caryl (University of Toronto) Clark (Editor), Clark Caryl (Editor), Sarah Day-O'Connell (Editor), Sarah (Skidmore College Day-O'Connell (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781107129016
• ISBN: 978-1-107-12901-6
• No. of pages: 520
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Opera, Opera, Reference works, Musicians, singers, bands and groups, Composers and songwriters, Classical Music (C 1750 To C 1830), Classical style, Art music, orchestral and formal music