An edition of Exploring Haydn (2005)

Exploring Haydn

a listener's guide to music's boldest innovator / David Hurwitz.

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An edition of Exploring Haydn (2005)

Exploring Haydn

a listener's guide to music's boldest innovator / David Hurwitz.

  • 1 Currently reading

CDs include selected pieces described in the book.

Publish Date
Publisher
Amadeus Press
Language
English
Pages
200

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Book Details


Table of Contents

Inventing music as we know it (and why this turned out to be a mixed blessing)
How to listen to complete works
Haydn in his own words
Movement types in Haydn's instrumental music
Overview
First movements
Slow movements
Minuets/scherzos
Finales (grand and otherwise)
A topical view
Vocal works, sacred and secular
Solitary masterworks
From tragedy to comedy : Haydn's war on blandness
Conclusion : the road forward.

Edition Notes

Published in
Pompton Plains, N.J
Series
Unlocking the masters series ;, No. 6

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
780/.92
Library of Congress
MT92.H2 H87 2005, MT92.H2H87 2005, ML410.H39 H865 2005

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
200

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL3408981M
Internet Archive
exploringhaydnli00hurw
ISBN 10
1574671162
LCCN
2005024904
OCLC/WorldCat
61445825
LibraryThing
1679145
Goodreads
876037

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL5832594W

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