The Characteristic Symphony in the Age of Haydn and Beethoven
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- Author: Richard Will, University of Washington
- Date Published: January 2005
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- isbn: 9780511032479
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Associated through descriptive texts with literature, politics, religion, and other subjects, 'characteristic' symphonies offer an opportunity to study instrumental music as it engages important social and political debates of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This first full-length study of the genre illuminates the relationship between symphonies and their aesthetic and social contexts by focussing on the musical representation of feeling, human physical movement, and the passage of time. The works discussed include Beethoven's Pastoral and Eroica Symphonies, Haydn's Seven Last Words of our Savior on the Cross, Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf's symphonies on Ovid's Metamorphoses, and orchestral battle reenactments of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras. A separate chapter details the aesthetic context within which characteristic symphonies were conceived, as well as their subsequent reception, and a series of appendixes summarises bibliographic information for over 225 relevant examples.
Read more- New interpretations of works by Beethoven (Pastoral and Eroica Symphonies) and Haydn (Military Symphony, The Seven Last Words of our Savior on the Cross)
- Substantial discussion of works by lesser-known composers of the era, illustrated with numerous musical examples
- Indexes to over 225 symphonies with descriptive texts, c. 1750–1815
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- Date Published: January 2005
- format: Adobe eBook Reader
- isbn: 9780511032479
- contains: 1 b/w illus. 5 tables 95 music examples
- availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
Table of Contents
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.
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