Haydn and the Enlightenment - The Late Symphonies and their Audiences

Klappentext This book challenges the widely held view of Haydn as an inspired instrumental musician who composed in isolation from eighteenth-century enlightened thinking. Schroeder presents Haydn as a culturally and politically sensitive representative of the Age of Enlightenment! arguing that Haydn's awareness of contemporary aesthetic opinion and the tenets of the Enlightenment are reflected by the transformation in his compositional style. He explores Haydn's relationship with his audience! and suggests that Haydn was well acquainted with the contemporary view that works of art should serve a moral function! pointing to numerous instances in the late symphonies where this end is effectively pursued. Zusammenfassung Sixty examples of Haydn's music are presented in this book. His music is examined in relation to its 18th-century cultural background, looking at morality, literary influences and the composer-audience relationship. Exploring his symphonies, the book covers musical imagery and melodic sources. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I: Haydn and Enlightened Thought: Haydn and Shaftesbury: Music and morality; Pre-English literary influences; The Lodge 'Zur wahren Eintracht'; Opera, rhetoric, and Rittergedichte; String quartets, OP. 33: 'A New and Special Way'; Theory versus practice: Aesthetics and instrumental music; Symphonic ascent: Pre-Paris to the Loge Olympique; Part II: Audience Reception and England: The composer-audience relationship; Haydn and the English audience; Part III: The Symphonies: Symphonic intelligibility and sonata form; Melodic sources and musical images; Symphonies and the Salomon concerts; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Schroeder, David P. Schroeder
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 24.10.2000
• EAN: 9780198166825
• ISBN: 978-0-19-816682-5
• Pagine: 219
• Dimensioni: 155 mm x 235 mm x 13 mm
• Serie: Clarendon Paperbacks; Clarendon Paperbacks; Oxford Monographs on Music
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Musica > Storia della musica; Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, Composers and songwriters, Classical Music (C 1750 To C 1830), Classical style, Art music, orchestral and formal music