Haydn and His World Edited by Elaine R. Sisman Joesph Haydn's symphonies and string quartets are staples of the concert repertory, yet many aspects of this founding genius of the Viennese Classical style are only beginning to be explored. From local Kappelmeister to international icon, Haydn achieved success by developing a musical language aimed at both the connoisseurs and amateurs of the emerging musical public. In this volume, the first collection of essays in English devoted to this composer, a group of leading musicologists examines Haydn's works in relation to the aesthetic and cultural cross-currents of his time. Haydn and His World opens with an examination of the contexts of the composer's late oratorios: James Webster connects the Creation with the sublime--the eighteenth-century term for artistic experience of overwhelming power--and Leon Botstein explores the reception of Haydn's Seasons in terms of the changing views of programmatic music in the nineteenth century. Essays on Haydn's instrumental music include Mary Hunter on London chamber music as models of private and public performance, fortepianist Tom Beghin on rhetorical aspects of the Piano Sonata in D Major, XVI:42, Mark Evan Bonds on the real meaning behind contemporary comparisons of symphonies to the Pindaric ode, and Elaine R. Sisman on Haydn's Shakespeare, Haydn as Shakespeare, and "originality." Finally, Rebecca Green draws on primary sources to place one of Haydn's Goldoni operas at the center of the Esterhaza operatic culture of the 1770s. The book also includes two extensive late-eighteenth-century discussions, translated into English for the first time, of music and musicians in Haydn's milieu, as well as a fascinating reconstruction of the contents of Haydn's library, which shows him fully conversant with the intellectual and artistic trends of the era.Elaine R. Sisman is Professor of Music at Columbia University. She is the author of Haydn and the Classical Variation and Mozart: The "Jupiter" Symphony. OCTOBER 325 pages 6x9 0-691-05799-0 Paper $19.95 0-691-05798-2 Cloth $55.00 The Music Theory of Godfrey Winham Leslie David Blasius This book serves as an introduction to the work of Godfrey Winham, an influential figure in American music theory circles in the 1960s. Little published in his lifetime, Winham left behind, at his premature death in 1974, a massive collection of notes: correspondence, unfinished atricles, sketches for books, etc. These notes were transcribed and deposited in the Special Collections of Firestone Library at Princeton University. They cover a fascinating range of subjects: exercises in analytical thought, thoughts on the construction of a formally consistent music theory, studies of particular pieces, and an epistemological reconception of Schenker's analysis. In The Music Theory of Godfrey Winham, Leslie David Blasius attempts to synthesize the various aspects of the theorist's thinking into a single, coherent, if unfinished, endeavor. Blasius concentrates in particular on Winham's attempts to define formally the basic terms of music theory, his axiomatic phenomenology of pitch and harmonic relations, his tentative steps towards an axiomatic phenomenology of rhythm, and his fresh consideration of the reciprocal relationship between theory and analysis. In so doing, Blasius gives a clear picture of the materials in the archives, particularly when they exhibit Winham's multiple attempts to come to terms with a specific problem. The volume includes a set of complete excerpts of materials cited in Blasius's text and an index for the entire collection. Leslie David Blasius is currently Assistant Professor of Music Theory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of Schenker's Argument and the Claims of Music Theory. A publication of the Department of Music, Princeton University. NOVEMBER 208 pages 6x9 0-691-01227-X Cloth $35.00
Brahms: The Four Symphonies Walter Frisch 1996 250 pages, cloth Rights:000 0-02-870765-6 $35.00 "This is a terrific book, one that, better than most of this type, will be of real use to amateurs and experts alike."--David Brodbeck, University of Pittsburgh "General readers will find as complete an introduction to Brahms' symphonies as they might hope for. Scholars will benefit from Frisch's synthesis of the sizable literature."--John Daverio, Boston University This newest volume in the Monuments series presents a thorough treatment of the genesis, structure, reception, and performance history of the four symphonies of Johannes Brahms. Frisch provides a readable, musically sensitive analytical commentary on the symphonies as well as a consideration of their context. Walter Frisch is chair of the department of music at Columbia University. He is the author of Brahms and the Principle of Developing Variation, a winner of the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award, and of *The Early Works of Arnold Schoenberg, 1893-1908*. Bach: The Orgelb�chlein Russell Stinson 1996 256 pages, cloth Rights:000 0-02-872505-0 $35.00 In lucid and engaging style, Stinson examines this masterful collection of organ chorales from a range of historical and analytical perspectives--from Bach's thinking in creating the collection and his compositional process, through the work's reception, performance, and publication history. Appendixes present a complete score of the chorale "Ich ruf' zu dir" as arranged by C.P.E. Bach, heretofore available only in facsimile, and a list of published transcriptions of Orgelb�chlein chorales for instruments other than organ. A thorough bibliography is provided and the book is copiously illustrated with musical examples. Russell Stinson is associate professor of music and college organist at Lyon College. He is the outhor of The Bach Manuscrpits of Johann Peter Kellner and His Circle. His articles have appeared in Early Music, Musical Quarterly, Bach Studies, Journal of Musicology, and Journal of Musicological Research. The Nineteenth-Century Symphony D. Kern Holoman, editor 1996 450 pages, cloth Rights:000 0-02-871105-X $45.00H The sixteen contributed essays comprising this volume summarize existing scholarship and explore new critical approaches to nineteenth-century symphonic music. The contributors include Michael Bekerman, David Brodbeck, Clive Brown, Bryan Gilliam, Kenneth Hamilton, James Hepokoski, Joseph C. Kraus, Ralph p. Locke, Brian Newbould, Linda Roesner, R. Larry Todd, Stephen Hefling, and Stephen Parkany. D. Kern Holoman is dean of humanities, arts, and cultural studies at UC Davis. His articles have appeared in JAMS and Musical Quarterly, and he is the author of the books Berlioz and Evenings with the Orchestra. German Lieder in the Nineteenth Century Rufus Hallmark, editor 1996 352 pages, cloth Rights:000 0-02-870845-8 $45.00H This collection of essays provides a fresh, intelligent look at the genre in which Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Wolf, Mahler, and Strauss composed some of their finest works. Among the contributors are John Daverio, Virginia Hancock, Lawrence Kramer, Christopher Lewis, Barbara Petersen, Harry Seelig, Robert Spillman, Jurgen Thym, and Susan Youens. Professor of music at the Aaron Copland School of Music, Rufus Hallmark is a professional singer and writer.
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