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  • Haydn's Symphonic Forms: Essays in Compositional Logic

    Haydn's Symphonic Forms by Haimo, Ethan;

    Essays in Compositional Logic

    Series: Oxford Monographs on Music;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Clarendon Press
    • Date of Publication 9 November 1995

    • ISBN 9780198163923
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages310 pages
    • Size 242x162x22 mm
    • Weight 572 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations music examples, tables
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    Short description:

    This book examines formal organization in Haydn's symphonies. The structure of individual movements as well as the relationships between them are analysed in detail. All common instrumental forms of the Classical era (sonata, rondo, variations, and so forth) are discussed. The author reconstructs Haydn's principles of formal thought and explains how these principles governed his compositional choices.

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    Haydn never discussed his compositional ideas in much detail, either in the interviews he gave to an early biographer or in his surviving correspondence. Moreover, relatively few sketches of his compositions have been preserved. Therefore, attempts to reconstruct Haydn's compositional thought, and in particular his formal logic, must rely on evidence drawn from close analyses of the works themselves. Using his symphonies as its subject, this book attempts to clarify what Haydn's fundamental principles of formal logic might have been. It shows how Haydn employed those basic compositional principles to structure his forms, providing explanations that account for specific details of individual movements as well as the relationships between the movements. Beyond what they show about Haydn's formal thought and the individual works discussed, the analyses in this book also have a larger purpose: to argue in support of the idea that compositions cannot be analysed in a meaningful manner if the analysis is divorced from the work's historical context.

    Haimo's study reflects the almost incredible changes that have occurred in the general attitude towards Haydn

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