Haydn's Symphonic Forms

Essays in Compositional Logic

By: Ethan Haimo

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Hardcover | 9 November 1995

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Haydn never discussed his ideas about composition 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. Attempts to reconstruct Haydn's compositional thought, and in particular his formal logic, must therefore rely on evidence drawn from close analyses of the works themselves. Using the symphonies as his subject, Ethan Haimo attempts to clarify what Haydn's fundamental principles of formal logic might have been. He shows how Haydn employed those basic compositional principles to structure his forms, and provides explanations that account for specific details of individual movements as well as the relationship between movements. Beyond what they show about the composer's formal thought and the individual works discussed, the analyses in the 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.

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Non-Fiction Arts & Entertainment Music Theory of Music & Musicology Individual Composers & Musicians, Specific Bands & Groups Music Styles & Genres Western Classical Music & Opera Classical Music from 1750 to 1830 Language & Linguistics Linguistics

Introduction: Principles of Form	p. 1
Symphony No. 1(-25 November 1759)	p. 12
Symphony No. 21 (1764)	p. 42
Symphony No. 49 (1768)	p. 70
Symphony No. 55 (1774)	p. 100
Symphony No. 75 (-1781 [?1779])	p. 128
Symphony No. 81 (-8 November 1784)	p. 147
Symphony No. 85 (?1785)	p. 178
Symphony No. 96 (1791)	p. 208
Symphony No. 99 (1793)	p. 235
Analytical and Historical Contexts	p. 268
Bibliography	p. 280
Index of Haydn's Compositions	p. 289
General Index	p. 293
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