Haydn and the classical variation
1993, 1st edition. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #391226
Series: Studies in the History of Music, 5. Physical description: xii, 311 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-301) and index. Contents: 1. Introduction: repetition and decoration -- 2. The rhetoric of variation: Rhetoric and classical composers ; Rhetoric and variation ; Figures of rhetoric and music ; Figures for variation form ; Rhetorical analysis -- 3. Variation as form and technique in eighteenth-century musical writings: Improvised and composed variation technique ; Improvised and composed variation form -- 4. The variation in the universe of classical musical forms: Expansion techniques ; Principal periods ; Haydn's expansions ; Variation and expanded forms -- 5. Convention and innovation in Haydn's variations to 1780: Early variations ; The watershed of 1772 ; Haydn's "creative periods" ; Hybrid variations: principles and development -- 6. Synthesis: Haydn's variations in the 1780s and 1790s: Symphonies ; Quartets ; Keyboard works -- 7. Mozart's variations: Inventio: choice and adaptation of themes ; Dispositio: ordering of variations ; Elaboratio: figures and figurations -- 8. Conclusion: Beethoven and the transformation of the classical variation: Decorum ; Piano variations and the "new way" ; Eroica: transformation of the alternating variation -- Appendix A: Variations of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven [list of works] -- Appendix B: Extended original-language quotations. Subjects: Haydn, Joseph 1732-1809; Variations; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus 1756-1791; Beethoven, Ludwig van 1770-1827; Variations Analysis, appreciation; Variations History and criticism 18th century; Instrumental music Analysis; Retorica; Music History and criticism Classical; Musical form; Composition (Music); Austria.
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