Matthew Riley (Senior Lecturer in Music, Senior Lecturer in Music,

Viennese Minor-Key Symphony in the Age of Haydn and Mozart

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Produktbeschreibung

In late eighteenth-century Vienna and the Habsburg territories, over 50 minor-key symphonies were written. Their distinctive stormy character, nervous energy and intense pathos make them a unique phenomenon.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 163mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 530g
• ISBN-13: 9780199349678
• ISBN-10: 0199349673
• Artikelnr.: 40578564

Autorenporträt

Matthew Riley is Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham. His research interests include Classical and Romantic instrumental music, music and nationalism, and the music of Edward Elgar.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgements
* Tables, figures and music examples
* 1 The Viennese minor-key symphony
* 2 Imperial court composers: Wagenseil, Gassmann, Ordonez
* 3 Va?hal to 1771: five first movements
* 4. Two subgeneric conventions: the contrapuntal minuet, the stormy
finale
* 5. Studies in Haydn's minor-key symphonies 1763-1772
* 6. Va?hal's new paths: four later symphonies
* 7. Modal reversal and characteristic symphonies
* 8. Mozart and the minor-key symphony
* Glossary of analytical terms
* Appendix 1 Thematic catalogues consulted for the information in Table
1.1
* Appendix 2 Sources of the symphonies used for analysis; CD recordings
* Bibliography
* Index