Exploring Haydn : a listener's guide to music's boldest innovator /
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| Language: | English |
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Pompton Plains, N.J. :
Amadeus Press,
2005.
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Table of Contents:
- Inventing music as we know it (and why this turned out to be a mixed blessing)
- How to listen to complete works
- Haydn in his own words
- Movement types in Haydn's instrumental music
- Overview
- First movements
- Slow movements
- Minuets/scherzos
- Finales (grand and otherwise)
- A topical view
- Vocal works, sacred and secular
- Solitary masterworks
- From tragedy to comedy : Haydn's war on blandness
- Conclusion : the road forward.