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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, human physical movement, and the passage of time. The works discussed include Beethoven's Pastoral and Eroica Symphonies, Haydn's Seven Last Words of our Savior on the Cross, Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf's symphonies on Ovid's Metamorphoses, and orchestral battle reenactments of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras. A separate chapter details the aesthetic context within which characteristic symphonies were conceived, as well as their subsequent reception, and a series of appendixes summarises bibliographic information for over 225 relevant examples.

Music --- Program music. --- Symphony --- Philosophy and aesthetics. --- Musique à programme --- Nature in music --- Program music --- Programmamuziek --- Symphonie --- Musique --- Musique à programme --- Philosophie et esthétique --- Beethoven, Ludwig van, --- Haydn, Joseph, --- Dittersdorf, Carl Ditters von, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Criticism and interpretation --- 18th century --- 19th century --- Philosophy and aesthetics --- Music - 18th century - Philosophy and aesthetics. --- Sinfonietta --- Symphonies --- Symphonietta --- Musical form --- Programmatic music --- Narrative in music --- Art music --- Art music, Western --- Classical music --- Musical compositions --- Musical works --- Serious music --- Western art music --- Western music (Western countries) --- History and criticism

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Haydn is enjoying renewed appreciation as one of the towering figures of Western music history. This lively collection builds upon this resurgence of interest, with chapters exploring the nature of Haydn's invention and the cultural forces that he both absorbed and helped to shape and express. The volume addresses Haydn's celebrated instrumental pieces, the epoch-making Creation and many lesser-known but superb vocal works including the Masses, the English canzonettas and Scottish songs and the operas L'isola disabitata and L'anima del filosofo. Topics range from Haydn's rondo forms to his violin fingerings, from his interpretation of the Credo to his reading of Ovid's Metamorphoses, from his involvement with national music to his influence on the emerging concept of the musical work. Haydn emerges as an engaged artist in every sense of the term, as remarkable for his critical response to the world around him as for his innovations in musical composition.

Composers --- Songwriters --- Musicians --- Haydn, Joseph, --- Gaĭdn, Ĭ., --- Gaĭdn, Ĭosif, --- Gaĭdn, Ĭozef, --- Haiden, Josip, --- Haidnas, J., --- Haidun, --- Hayden, Joseph, --- Haydn, --- Haydn, F. J. --- Haydn, Franz Josef, --- Haydn, Franz Joseph, --- Haydn, Giuseppe, --- Haydn, Ios. --- Haydn, J. --- Haydn, Jos. --- Haydn, Josef, --- Haydn, Joseph --- Heyden, Joseph, --- Khaĭdn, Ĭozef, --- היידן, י., --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Haydn, Franz Joseph