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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hurwitz, David, 1961-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Pompton Plains, N.J. : Amadeus Press, 2005.
Series:Unlocking the masters series ; no. 6.
Subjects:
Haydn, Joseph, > 1732-1809 > Criticism and interpretation.
Online Access:Table of contents
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.