Haydn''s Minuets and Eighteenth-Century Dance

"Audiences in eighteenth-century Vienna attended the city's popular public balls, where they danced the minuet. This book reconstructs this dance, enabling audiences today to understand Haydn's minuets through the kinaesthetic associations and expectations that bodily knowledge of the dance brings, revealing previously hidden features of this music"--

Sommario

List of figures; List of tables; List of musical examples; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The dance culture of late-eighteenth-century Vienna; 2. The choreography of the Viennese minuet as a group dance; 3. The music of the Viennese minuet; 4. A somatic enquiry into the minuet; 5. Somatic analysis of the concert minuets; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.

Info autore

Joseph Fort is College Organist and Director of the Chapel Choir, and Senior Lecturer in Music at King's College London. He took up this post in 2015, upon completion of his Ph.D. in Music Theory at Harvard University.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Joseph Fort, Joseph (King''s College London) Fort
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 30.09.2025
• EAN: 9781009515597
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0951559-7
• Pagine: 280
• Serie: Music in Context
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Musica > Strumentistica; Dance, austria, MUSIC / General, Vienna, german, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Classical Music (C 1750 To C 1830), Classical style, C 1700 To C 1800, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Western "classical" music