Instrumental Music in an Age of Sociability
Haydn, Mozart and Friends
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- Author: W. Dean Sutcliffe, University of Auckland
- Date Published: October 2019
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107013810
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Sociability may be a key term of reference for eighteenth-century studies as a whole, but it has not yet developed an especially strong profile in music scholarship. Many of the associations that it brings do not fit comfortably with a later imperative of individual expression. W. Dean Sutcliffe invites us to face up to the challenge of re-evaluating the communicative rationales that lie behind later eighteenth-century instrumental style. Taking a behavioural perspective, he divides sociability into 'technical' and 'affective' realms, involving close attention both to particular recurring musical patterns as well as to some of the style's most salient expressive attributes. The book addresses a broad span of the instrumental production of the era, with Haydn as the pivotal figure. Close readings of a variety of works are embedded in an encompassing consideration of the reception of this music.
Read more- Proposes a new encompassing perspective on one of the best-known eras of classical music, the era of Haydn and Mozart
- Covers a very wide range of later eighteenth-century instrumental music, while also treating Haydn as the pivotal figure of the study
- Adopts a novel approach using the categories of 'technical' and 'affective' sociability to provide a fresh take on what is (in part) a very familiar musical canon
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- Date Published: October 2019
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107013810
- length: 610 pages
- dimensions: 254 x 183 x 33 mm
- weight: 1.35kg
- contains: 2 tables 80 music examples
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. The sociable muse
2. Reciprocity
3. Formula
4. Tone
5. Final focus.
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