The String Quartets of Joseph Haydn

Floyd Grave, Margaret Grave (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

396 Seiten

2008
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-538295-2 (ISBN)

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A monumental accomplishment from the age of Enlightenment, the string quartets of Joseph Haydn hold a central place not only in the composer's oeuvre, but also in our modern conception of form, style, and expression in the instrumental music of his day. Here, renowned music historians Floyd and Margaret Grave present a fresh perspective on a comprehensive survey of the works. This thorough and unique analysis offers new insights into the creation of the quartets, the wealth of musical customs and conventions on which they draw, the scope of their innovations, and their significance as reflections of Haydn's artistic personality. Each set of quartets is characterized in terms of its particular mix of structural conventions and novelties, stylistic allusions, and its special points of connection with other opus groups in the series. Throughout the book, the authors draw attention to the boundless supply of compositional strategies by which Haydn appears to be continually rethinking, reevaluating, and refining the quartet's potentials. They also lucidly describe Haydn's famous penchant for wit, humor, and compositional artifice, illuminating the unexpected connections he draws between seemingly unrelated ideas, his irony, and his lightning bolts of surprise and thwarted expectation. Approaching the quartets from a variety of vantage points, the authors correct many prevailing assumptions about convention, innovation, and developing compositional technique in the music of Haydn and his contemporaries.

Going beyond traditional modes of study, The String Quartets of Joseph Haydn blends historical analysis and factual information with critical appraisal in a way that will engage all Haydn enthusiasts.

Floyd and Margaret Grave have worked both independently and together on a variety of research projects, centering mostly on problems of eighteenth-century music sources, theory, criticism, and analysis. Floyd Grave currently teaches in the Music Department at Rutgers University, where he has served as director of the graduate programs in musicology, music theory, and composition. He has also taught at New York University and the University of Virginia. Both Floyd and Margaret have received numerous research grants and contributed articles to the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians , first and second editions.

Introduction
Part I: Points of Departure
1: The Repertory
2: Genre and Character
3: Texture, Ensemble, Technique, and Sonority
Part II: Formal Perimeters
4: Sonata Form
5: The Dance Movement
6: Variation
7: Other Forms: Fugue, Rondo, and Miscellaneous Nonstandard Designs
Part III: The Opus Groups
8: The Earliest Quartets (ca. 1755-60 [?ca. 1757-59]): Op. o; Op. 1 Nos. 1,2,3,4, and 6; Op. 2 Nos. 1,2,4, and 6
9: Op. 9 (ca.1768-70) and Op. 17 (1771)
10: Op. 20 (1772)
11: Op. 33 (1781) and Op. 42 ([?1784-] 1785)
12: Op. 50 (1787)
13: Op. 54/55 (1788)

Erscheint lt. Verlag	26.2.2009
Zusatzinfo	105 musical examples
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	234 x 156 mm
Gewicht	553 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Instrumentenkunde
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
ISBN-10	0-19-538295-1 / 0195382951
ISBN-13	978-0-19-538295-2 / 9780195382952
Zustand	Neuware