Exploring Haydn : a listener's guide to music's boldest innovator / David Hurwitz.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Unlocking the masters series ; no. 6.Publication details: Pompton Plains, N.J. : Amadeus Press, 2005.Description: xvi, 200 p. ; 23 cm. + 2 CDs (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)ISBN:
  • 9781574671162
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 780/.92
LOC classification:
  • MT92.H2 H87 2005
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.
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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.

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