Haydn: The Creation

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Cambridge University Press, 31 may 1991 - 135 páginas
Haydn's Creation is one of the great masterpieces of the classical period. This absorbing and original account of the work provides an indispensable guide for the concert-goer, performer and student alike. The author places the work within the oratorio tradition, and contrasts the theological and literary character of the English libretto with the Viennese milieu of the first performances. The complete text is provided in both German and English versions as a useful reference point for discussion of the design of the work, the musical treatment of the words, including questions of Haydn's pictorialism, and a detailed examination of the different movement types employed. The book also contains a brief history of the reception of the work with appendices of notes on the changing performance traditions and selected extracts from critical accounts from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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Theology
9
I
19
Composition performance and reception
31
Design of the work
47
Musical analysis
65
22855
73
Excerpts from critical essays
89
Edward Taylor? 1834
95
Donald Francis Tovey 1934
103
Performance practice
109
Editions currently available and numbering
118
35
121
Index
132
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