The Orchestral Revolution Haydn and the Technologies of Timbre
This book explores the relationship between the history of orchestration and the development of modern musical aesthetics in the Enlightenment.
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press
2013.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b38442723*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Figures; Musical examples; Acknowledgements; Introduction: instruments and aesthetics; See the orchestra; Orchestration: the very idea; Haydn' s orchestra; Instruments and mediation; Overview of the book; The rebirth of aesthetics; 1 Lessons at the ocular harpsichord; Scarlet trumpets; Castel and the ocular harpsichord; Color versus tone; Instruments and organologies; Metaphorical ocular harpsichords; The color metaphor, re-imagined; 2 The idea of timbre; An elusive object; Eighteenth-century timbre; Treatises on instrumentation; The beginning of Enlightenment aesthetics.
- We are all instrumentsThe little clavichords in our souls; Conclusion; 3 Haydn, orchestration, and re-orchestration; Haydn' s fame; Incessant variety and orchestral growth; Analyzing for orchestration; Orchestral openings; Thematic growth; Slow-movement dramas; True orchestration; 4 The republic of sound; Haydn' s chaos; Instruments as characters; Orchestral polity; Instrumental citizens; Orchestral imperatives and hierarchies; Sonic economies; The Creation and The Seasons, living encyclopedias; 5 The real museum of musical works; Mechanically induced tears.
- From the Bogenflügel to the orchestrionRepeatable light; Anxious materials; Orchestras, mediation, and tombs; 6 Abuses of the orchestra; The discipline of orchestration; Noise and power; The lion' s tail; Effect Effect; ""He may have already had Germany in mind""; Music history, from Haydn to Rossini; Timbre as parameter; Epilogue: orchestral alchemy; Bibliography; Index.
