Instrumental Music in an Age of Sociability - Haydn, Mozart and Friends

List of contents

1. The sociable muse; 2. Reciprocity; 3. Formula; 4. Tone; 5. Final focus.

About the author

W. Dean Sutcliffe is Professor in the School of Music at the University of Auckland, and co-editor of the journal Eighteenth-Century Music. His research interests focus on the eighteenth century, and publications have covered composers such as Domenico Scarlatti, Scarlatti's Spanish contemporary Sebastián de Albero, Boccherini, Mozart, Manuel Blasco de Nebra and above all Haydn. His most recent large-scale publication is an edition of the three string quartets Op. 42 by Adalbert Gyrowetz (2017). He was awarded the Dent Medal for 2009 by the Royal Musical Association.

Summary

For those who want an overdue fresh perspective on a much loved, yet in some ways misunderstood, musical repertoire, this book surveys a much wider panorama of compositional activity than is normally offered, combining the familiar territory of Vienna with many other centres and musical figures.

Product details

• Authors: W. Dean Sutcliffe, W. Dean (University of Auckland) Sutcliffe, Sutcliffe W. Dean
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2019
• EAN: 9781107013810
• ISBN: 978-1-107-01381-0
• No. of pages: 610
• Dimensions: 183 mm x 255 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Print on Demand
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music history; Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, MUSIC / History & Criticism, Music reviews & criticism, Musicians, singers, bands and groups, Composers and songwriters, Music reviews and criticism, Classical Music (C 1750 To C 1830), Classical style, Musical Instruments, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Musical instruments & instrumental ensembles