Haydn's Symphonic Forms by Ethan Haimo

Haydn's Symphonic Forms by Ethan Haimo

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 * Early Music Today *

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ISBN 13	9780198163923
ISBN 10	0198163924
Title	Haydn's Symphonic Forms
Author	Ethan Haimo
Series	Oxford Monographs On Music
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Year published	1995-11-09
Number of pages	310
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