Haydn Studies

The advances in Haydn scholarship would have been unthinkable to earlier generations, who honoured the composer more in word than in deed. Haydn Studies deals with many aspects of a composer who is perennially fresh, concentrating principally on matters of reception, style and aesthetics and presenting many interesting readings of the composer's work. Haydn has never played a major role in accounts of cultural history and has never achieved the emblematic status accorded to composers such as Beethoven, Debussy and Stravinsky, in spite of his radical creative agenda: this volume broadens the base of our understanding of the composer.


? Contains interesting readings of Haydn's music
? A wide variety of subject areas and works covered
? Contains contributions by established scholars and those fresh to the field


CONTENIDO:
Preface;
Editor's note;
1. The consequences of presumed innocence: the nineteenth-century reception of Joseph Haydn (Leon Botstein)
2. Haydn's sacred vocal music and the aesthetics of salvation (James Webster)
3. Sentiment and sensibility in La vera costanza (Jessica Waldoff)
4. Haydn as Romantic: a chemical experiment with instrumental music (Daniel K. L. Chua)
5. Haydn's 'Cours complet de la composition' and the Sturm und Drang (Mark Evan Bonds)
6. Haydn's reversals: style change, gesture and the implication-realization model (Michael Spitzer)
7. Haydn's symphonies between Sturm und Drang and 'Classical style': art and entertainment (James Webster)
8. The Haydn piano trio: textual facts and textural principles (W. Dean Sutcliffe)
9. Papa Doc's recap caper: Haydn and temporal dyslexia (George Edwards)
10. Haydn: the musicians' musician (Robin Holloway)
Index.