Public and Private Modes of Musical Discourse
Haydn's London Symphonies and Late String Quartets
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Product details:
- Publisher Indiana University Press
- Date of Publication 31 March 2026
- ISBN 9780253075277
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages252 pages
- Size 235x156 mm
- Weight 666 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 6 b&w tables, 84 printed music items 700
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Long description:
Public and Private Modes of Musical Discourse brings a new contribution to discussions on the difference between the public and private layers of music, which have often centered on issues of stylistic expression such as genre, performance venue, texture, and phrase organization. Symphonies, for example, have historically been seen as public expressions of grandeur with a festive, powerful musical character, while sonatas were associated with the subtler emotions of chamber music and private audiences.
Author Lauri Suurpää offers an alternative starting point for the distinction between these modes, grounding the public-private distinction on structure and expression. Focusing on Joseph Haydn's London symphonies and late string quartets, Suurpää exposes the interplay of details and large-scale narrative and unveils a key aspect of the music—its interactions and dialogues between public and private modes of discourse. In structure, if a musical segment adheres to conventional patterns, it is public; if it deviates from them, it is private. In expression, if a musical topic refers to an object shared by a crowd, such as a fanfare announcing a battle, it is public; if a topic refers to emotions felt by an individual, it is private.
With sonata theory, form-functional theory, Schenkerian analysis, hypermetrical analysis, and approaching musical expression from the perspective of topic theory, layers of structure and expression are peeled back. Public and Private Modes of Musical Discourse offers a valuable new way into how we discuss eighteenth-century music.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I: Public and Private Modes of Musical Discourse
1. Introduction
2. Elements of Private and Public Modes of Musical Discourse
3. Musical Patterns and Conventions: Public Recognition and Private Interpretation
Part II: Analysis of Individual Movements
4. Primary Theme and Exposition: Opening Movements of Symphony No. 104 and Symphony No. 97
5. Slow Movements: Symphony No. 93 and String Quartet Op. 76, No. 1
6. Finales: Symphony No. 96 and String Quartet Op. 76, No. 5
7. First Movement: String Quartet Op. 71, No. 1
8. Punctuation and Continuity: The First Movements of Haydn's Symphony No. 93 and Mozart's Symphony No. 39
9. Three Contexts for Analyzing Haydn's Late Instrumental Music
References
Index
