Engaging Haydn: culture, context, and criticism

Abstract

Introduction Mary Hunter and Richard Will Part I. Cultures of Vocal Music: 1. Fantasy island: Haydn's metastasian 'Reform' opera Elaine Sisman 2. Haydn invents Scotland Richard Will 3. Haydn's English canzonettas in their local context Katalin Komlos 4. Revolution, rebirth and the sublime in Haydn's L'anima del filosofo and The Creation Caryl Clark 5. 'Achieved is the glorious work': the creation and the choral work concept Nicholas Mathew Part II. Analytical Readings and Rereadings: 6. Imagination, continuity, and form in the first movements of Haydn's Opus 77 Quartets Lewis Lockwood 7. Does Haydn have a 'C-minor mood'? Jessica Waldoff 8. Form, rhetoric, and the reception of Haydn's Rondo Finales Michelle Fillion 9. Haydn and the Metamorphoses of Ovid Pierpaolo Polzonetti 10. Credo ut intelligam: Haydn's reading of the Credo text Tom Beghin Part III. Performance: 11. Haydn's string quartet fingerings: communications to performer and audience Mary Hunter 12. Haydn's orchestras and his orchestration to 1779, with an excursus on the times of day symphonies Neal Zaslaw Bibliography.