Haydn: The Creation (Cambridge Music Handbooks) |
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Author:
Nicholas Temperley
By Cambridge University Press
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Product Description
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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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 782.23
EAN: 9780521378659
ISBN: 0521378656
Label: Cambridge University Press
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 144
Publication Date: 1991-05-31
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Studio: Cambridge University Press |
