The Characteristic Symphony in the Age of Haydn and Beethoven

by Richard Will

Book Overview

Associated through descriptive texts with literature, politics, religion, and other subjects, 'characteristic' symphonies offer an opportunity to study instrumental music as it engages important social and political debates of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This first full-length study of the genre illuminates the relationship between symphonies and their aesthetic and social contexts by focussing on the musical representation of feeling,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521057175
• ISBN13: 9780521057172
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"