| Contents |
Some eighteenth-century Polish symphonies / Gerald Abraham -- English pre-Romantic poetry in settings by German composers / Otto E. Albrecht -- 'Rhythmic harmony' as taught by Johann Philipp Kirnberger / Putnam Aldrich -- Clementi's 'Musical characteristics' opus 19 / Eva Badura-Skoda -- Joseph Haydn's Ave Regina in A / Irmgard Becker-Glauch -- On vulgar music and poetry found in unexplored minor sources of eighteenth-century lute tablatures / Wolfgang Boetticher -- The early Zurich Neujahrsblätter / Andres Briner -- An evaluation of Johann Mattheson's opera, Cleopatra (Hamburg 1704) / George J. Buelow -- The chorale in the baroque era and J. S. Bach's contribution to it / Walter E. Buszin -- Joseph Haydn and the freemasons / Jacques Chailley -- Some observations on liturgy, text and structure in Haydn's late masses / Martin Chusid -- Tonal exploitation in the later quartets of Haydn / Louise E. Cuyler -- Vocal embellishment in a Handel aria / Winton Dean -- Amore traditore: a problem cantata / Robert Donington -- Johann Adam Hiller's 'Critical prospectus for a music library' / Vincent Duckles -- Similarities in the works of Haydn / Georg Feder -- Eighteenth century litaniae lauretanae from the repertory of the Viennese province of the Franciscan Order / Hellmut Federhofer and Renate Federhofer -- The problem of heritage in the musical life of the present / K. G. Fellerer -- Arietta Variata / Kurt Von Fischer -- Georg Benda, the pioneer of the melodrama / Edith Vogl Garrett -- The keyboard sonatas of Felix Maximo Lopez, an appreciation / John Gillespie -- J. S. Bach and the tradition of keyboard transcriptions / Theodor Gollner -- Progressive and conservative tendencies in the violoncello concertos of Leonardo Leo / Douglass Green -- BWV 131, Bach's first cantata / Gerhard Herz -- A rare contemporary edition of Haydn's 'Hymn for the Emperor' / Anthony van Hoboken -- Weber on opera: a challenge to eighteenth-century tradition / Dolores Menstell Hsu -- Haydn listings in the rediscovered Leuckart supplements: Breslau 1788-92 / Jan LaRue -- The closing numbers of Die Schöpfung / Siegmund Levarie -- Haydn as student and critic of Fux / Alfred Mann -- Modulation in C. P. E. Bach's Versuch / William J. Mitchell -- Ars Combinatoria, chance and choice in eighteenth-century music / Leonard G. Ratner -- Father and son: some attributions to J. S. Bach by C. P. E. Bach / Gloria Rose -- A bold enharmonic modulatory model in Joseph Haydn's string quartets / Laszlo Somfai -- Mozart's Gagliarda / Bence Szabolcsi -- Bernard Lamy, rhetorician of the passions / William G. Waite -- A homage of Piccinni to Gluck / Emanuel Winternitz -- The fairy-tale of the Neapolitan Opera / Hellmuth Christian Wolff -- A selected bibliography of the works of Karl Geiringer / Martin A. Silver. |
| Abstract |
Musicology--the scientific study of music--is particularly relevant to the brilliant range of music composed in Europe within the eighteenth century. This collection of essays is both imaginative in scope and authoritative in scholarship. The works of such famous composers as Joseph Haydn, Handel, J. S. Bach and C. P. E. Bach are discussed in detail, as are the achievements of other composers of that area--Leonardo Leo, Johann Mattheson, Piccinni, Clementi and so on. The studies are dedicated to Karl Geiringer on the occasion of his seventieth birthday. Dr. Geiringer is a distinguished music scholar of Haydn and many other composers, and there is an exhaustive and selected bibliography of his works at the end of the book. Edited by Roger E. Chapman and H. C. Robbins Landon the book includes essays by Gerald Abraham, Robert Donington, Putnam Aldrich and William G. Waite, as well as many other leading American and European musicologists. It will be of immense value to all who wish to increase their knowledge of music and so heighten the appreciation of what they hear. Consistently exploratory and never repetitive in style or subject matter these essays are also of wide biographical, sociological and historical interest. This book is a major contribution to aesthetics in music. |
