Haydn's 'Farewell' Symphony and the Idea of Classical Style: Through-Composition and Cyclic Integration in His Instrumental Music

by James Webster and James Webster

Book Overview

This volume offers a new view of Joseph Haydn's instrumental music. It argues that many of Haydn's greatest and most characteristic instrumental works are 'through-composed' in the sense that their several movements are bound together into a cycle. This cyclic integration is articulated, among other ways, by the 'progressive' form of individual movements, structural and gestural links between the movements, and extramusical associations. Central to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521612012
• ISBN13: 9780521612012
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.4" x 9.7"