| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 329 pages) : illustrations. |
| Series |
New perspectives in music history and criticism |
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New perspectives in music history and criticism.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 304-318) and index. |
| Contents |
Paradise lost: Dittersdorf's Four ages of the world and the crisis of Austrian enlightened despotism -- Preaching without words: reform Catholicism versus divine mystery in Haydn's Seven last words -- Boundaries of the art: characteristic music in contemporary criticism and aesthetics -- Paradise regained: time, morality, and humanity in Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony -- Making memories: symphonies of war, death, and celebration -- Appendixes: 1. Thematic index of characteristic symphonies -- Pastoral symphonies and movements -- Symphonies and movements by subject. |
| Summary |
'Characteristic' symphonies have texts associating them with literature, politics, religion, and other aspects of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century European culture. This first full-length study of the genre illuminates the relationship between symphonies and their aesthetic and social context and discusses examples of works by composers including Beethoven, Haydn and Dittersdorf. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827. Symphonies -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Haydn, Joseph, 1732-1809. Symphonies -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Dittersdorf, Karl Ditters von, 1739-1799. Symphonies -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827.
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Haydn, Joseph, 1732-1809.
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Dittersdorf, Karl Ditters von, 1739-1799.
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Symphonies (Beethoven, Ludwig van) (OCoLC)fst01356350
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Symphonies (Dittersdorf, Karl Ditters von) (OCoLC)fst01793923
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Symphonies (Haydn, Joseph) (OCoLC)fst01356515
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Symphony -- 18th century.
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Symphony -- 19th century.
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Music -- 18th century -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
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Music -- 19th century -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
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Program music.
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MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Classical.
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Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
(OCoLC)fst01030408
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Program music. (OCoLC)fst01078667
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Symphony. (OCoLC)fst01140966
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| Chronological Term |
1700-1899
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Will, Richard James. Characteristic symphony in the age of Haydn and Beethoven. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002 0521802016 (DLC) 2001035658 (OCoLC)46909568 |
| ISBN |
0511041500 (electronic bk.) |
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9780511041501 (electronic bk.) |
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9780511481895 (electronic bk.) |
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0511481896 (electronic bk.) |
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0511032471 (electronic bk. ;) (Adobe Reader) |
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9780511032479 (electronic bk. ;) (Adobe Reader) |
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