| Contents |
Introduction -- Visit to the Salon de Parnasse / Elisabeth Le Guin -- Backgrounds. Performing theory: variations on a theme by Quintilian / Sander M. Goldberg ; Ut rhetorica artes: the rhetorical theory of the sister arts / Timothy Erwin ; School, stage, salon: musical cultures in Haydn's Vienna / James Van Horn Melton ; Rhetoric versus truth: listening to Haydn in the age of Beethoven / Mark Evan Bonds -- Foregrounds. Delivery, delivery, delivery! Crowning the rhetorical process of Haydn's keyboard sonatas / Tom Beghin ; Rhetoric of improvisation in Haydn's keyboard music / James Webster ; Clever orator versus bold innovator / László Somfai ; Poetry of Haydn's songs: sexuality, repetition, whimsy / Marshall Brown ; Haydn's London trios and the rhetoric of the grotesque / Annette Richards ; Rhetorical truth in Haydn's chamber music: genre, tertiary rhetoric, and the opus 76 quartets / Elaine Sisman. |
| Abstract |
The composer is the last major composer whose music was regularly discussed by his contemporaries in terms derived from the classical tradition of rhetoric. Within a generation of his death, that discourse had fallen from favor, but the historical relationship between Haydn and the rhetorical tradition endured. In this volume, a distinguished group of contributors in fields from classics to literature to musicology restores the rhetorical model to prominence and shows what can be achieved by returning to the idea of music as a rhetorical process. An accompanying DVD-ROM, specially designed for this project, presents performances and illustrations keyed to its chapters, making musicological arguments accessible to nonspecialists and advancing additional arguments of its own through the medium of performance. The volume thus reaches beyond musicology to enrich and complicate the larger debate over rhetorics role in eighteenth-century culture. |
| Local note | JOYNER MUSIC LIBRARY BOOK ACCOMPANIED BY SOFTWARE LOCATED AT CALL NUMBER : Music SW-76. |
| Local note | JOYNER MUSIC LIBRARY BOOK ACCOMPANIED BY SOFTWARE LOCATED AT CALL NUMBER : Music SW-76. |
| General note | Includes accompanying DVD-ROM titled Haydn and the performance of rhetoric: sounds, scores, and images, ©℗2007. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-353) and index. |
| Technical details | System requirements for accompanying DVD-ROM: Pentium 4/G4 processor or better; 512 Mb RAM or higher. |
| LCCN | 2007017409 |
| ISBN | 9780226041292 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
| ISBN | 0226041298 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
