Engaging Haydn
Culture, Context, and Criticism
Mary Hunter editor Richard Will editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Published:12th Jul '12
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Haydn is enjoying renewed appreciation: this book explores fresh approaches to his music and the cultural forces affecting it.
Haydn is enjoying renewed appreciation as one of the towering figures of Western music history. This lively and varied collection builds upon this resurgence of interest, exploring the nature of Haydn's invention and the cultural forces that he both absorbed and helped to shape and express.Haydn is enjoying renewed appreciation as one of the towering figures of Western music history. This lively collection builds upon this resurgence of interest, with chapters exploring the nature of Haydn's invention and the cultural forces that he both absorbed and helped to shape and express. The volume addresses Haydn's celebrated instrumental pieces, the epoch-making Creation and many lesser-known but superb vocal works including the Masses, the English canzonettas and Scottish songs and the operas L'isola disabitata and L'anima del filosofo. Topics range from Haydn's rondo forms to his violin fingerings, from his interpretation of the Credo to his reading of Ovid's Metamorphoses, from his involvement with national music to his influence on the emerging concept of the musical work. Haydn emerges as an engaged artist in every sense of the term, as remarkable for his critical response to the world around him as for his innovations in musical composition.
"Comprising essays written by a distinguished group of leading scholars, this collection is remarkable for its critical insights, its methodological rigor, and its avoidance of trendy and tendential postmodern jargon and jingoism." --Choice
ISBN: 9781107015142
Dimensions: 244mm x 170mm x 21mm
Weight: 780g
362 pages