HAYDN LIFE AND WORKS – PREPARATION 4
(S-11)
For Friday
October 7
Back to
Haydn's symphonies . . . Please listen to four symphonies composed for public
concerts:
Symphony
85 in Bb (La Reine)
I’ve posted
scores on online, and you’ll find multiple recordings on
Please read
the following:
The New Groves background on the Paris
and London symphonies. You'll find it in the biographical section under
"Independence" and "London," in the works section under
"Orchestral music," and in the works list from symphony 82 on.
David P. Schroeder, Haydn and the Enlightenment – The Late
Symphonies and their Audience (1997): “Introduction” (1-5); “Aesthetics and
Instrumental Music" (63-74).
I've posted
these excerpts online and put the books on reserve in the library.
This week's
preparation has two parts:
In the first
half of next week's class I want to discuss Haydn's orchestration. Please pick one Paris symphony (85 or 86) and one London symphony (99 or 102) and
also one Esterhazy symphony from the
ones we covered in the first symphony class (2, 7, 22, 31, 39, 46, 60). Write a
paragraph in which you compare orchestration techniques in these three
symphonies. Are there techniques that Haydn uses throughout? What techniques
does he add from Eszterhazy to Paris? from Paris to
London? Are there techniques he abandons.
In the second
half class we have a visitor! Scott Foglesong will
present an analysis of Symphony 86. To prepare please listen again to Symphony
86 following the score (online or in the library), and find one passage in each movement that you
find surprising and/or puzzling. List your four passages (with measure numbers)
along with a sentence saying what you found interesting about this passage.
Type up both parts
of this preparation and hand it in at the end of class.