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Webster, James: Haydn's "farewell" symphony and the idea of classical style : through-composition and cyclic integration in his instrumental music / James Webster. – Reprinted. – Cambridge ; New York, NY ; Melbourne : Cambridge University Press, 1994. – XIX, 402 S. : Faks. (Noten), graph. Darst., Notenbeisp. – (Cambridge studies in music theory and analysis ; 1)
ISBN/ISMN 0-521-28520-2
Inv.-Nr. 96.1242
Inhalt: Introduction: The origins of the Farewell symphony. Analysis and interpretation. Through-composition in Haydn's music. Haydn and the "classical style". – Part I: The Farewell symphony - 1.1 The construction of the whole: A through-composed symphony. Major/minor equivalence and remote third-relationis. Developing variation - 1.2 Instability: Allegro assai. Adagio: motiveic transformation and expressive melody. Minuet and trio: ambiguity. A promise of resolution - 1.3 Resolution: The form of the double finale. Motivic liquidation, background strudture, and closure. An apotheosis of etherality - 1.4 The program: Reception. An interpretation. – Part II: Cyclic organization in Haydn's instrumental music - 2.5 Progressive form and the rhetoric of instability: Gesture and rhetoric. Destabilization. Through-composition. Symphonies Nos. 80 and 92, first movements - 2.6 Integration of the cycle: The background of genre. Cyclic form? Run-on movement pairs and compound movements. Thematicism. Tonal organization - 2.7 Extramusical associations: Austrian instrumental music in Haydn's time. Extramusicality in Haydn's aesthetics. Haydn's extramusical symphonies. Implications - 2.8 Individual compositions: Two early symphonies: cyclic patterns and thematic links. Two expressive symphonies, c. 1770 (Nr. 49, 46). Sonata No. 30 in A: the limits of through-composition. Two C major quartets: the finale as culmination (op. 20,2; op.54,2). Two masterworks of 1793 (op. 74,3; Symphony No. 99). The dialectiic of "type" and uniqueness. – Historiographical conclusion : Haydn's maturiy and "classical style": Rosen's criticism. Sandberger's tale. "Classical style". "Maturity". The Farewell symphony, through-composition, and Beethoven. – Bibliography. – Index.
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Sisman, Elaine Rochelle: James Webster. Haydn's "Farewell" Symphony and the idea of classical style. Through-composition and cyclic integration in his instrumental music : Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991 / [rezensiert von] Elaine R. Sisman. – 1995
In: Journal of the American Musicological Society. – 48 (1995), S. 293-305
Inv.-Nr. 95.419