| Description |
1 online resource (306 pages) |
| Contents |
Figures; Musical examples; Acknowledgements; Introduction: instruments and aesthetics; See the orchestra; Orchestration: the very idea; Haydn' s orchestra; Instruments and mediation; Overview of the book; The rebirth of aesthetics; 1 Lessons at the ocular harpsichord; Scarlet trumpets; Castel and the ocular harpsichord; Color versus tone; Instruments and organologies; Metaphorical ocular harpsichords; The color metaphor, re-imagined; 2 The idea of timbre; An elusive object; Eighteenth-century timbre; Treatises on instrumentation; The beginning of Enlightenment aesthetics |
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We are all instrumentsThe little clavichords in our souls; Conclusion; 3 Haydn, orchestration, and re-orchestration; Haydn' s fame; Incessant variety and orchestral growth; Analyzing for orchestration; Orchestral openings; Thematic growth; Slow-movement dramas; True orchestration; 4 The republic of sound; Haydn' s chaos; Instruments as characters; Orchestral polity; Instrumental citizens; Orchestral imperatives and hierarchies; Sonic economies; The Creation and The Seasons, living encyclopedias; 5 The real museum of musical works; Mechanically induced tears |
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From the Bogenflügel to the orchestrionRepeatable light; Anxious materials; Orchestras, mediation, and tombs; 6 Abuses of the orchestra; The discipline of orchestration; Noise and power; The lion' s tail; Effect Effect; He may have already had Germany in mind -- Music history, from Haydn to Rossini; Timbre as parameter; Epilogue: orchestral alchemy; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
This book explores the relationship between the history of orchestration and the development of modern musical aesthetics in the Enlightenment |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Haydn, Joseph, 1732-1809 - Criticism and interpretation
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Haydn, Joseph 1732-1809 gnd |
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Instrumentation and orchestration -- History
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Orchestra -- History -- 18th century
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MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Classical.
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MUSIC -- Printed Music -- Choral.
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Instrumentation and orchestration
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Orchestra
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Orchestermusik
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Klangfarbe
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Instrumentation
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781139616454 |
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1139616455 |
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9781139625753 |
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1139625756 |
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9781139235976 |
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1139235974 |
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1139612735 |
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9781139612739 |
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9781107028258 |
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1107028256 |
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9781283986700 |
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1283986701 |
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