HAYDN
(S-10)
For
Friday, 14 October
Please listen
to the following string quartets:
Op
50/5 in F major
Op
50/6 in D Major (“The Frog”)
Op
71/3 in Eb major
Op
74/1 in C major
Op
76/2 in D minor ('Fifths')
You'll find
scores to all these quartets at IMSLP and there are multiple recordings on
Please read
the following:
Charles Rosen, The Classical Style, 111-142 (You can skim a bit, but read closely the
discussion of the assigned quartets.)
W. Dean Sutcliffe, Haydn: Strings Quartets, Op. 50 (1992),
37-47 ("The story of the autographs")
Mary Hunter, "The quartets,"
in The Cambridge Companion to Haydn,
ed Caryl
I've posted
these excerpts online and put the books on reserve in the library.
Write short answers to the following
questions:
1) Charles Rosen (p.129) says that
Haydn “found ways of making us hear the dynamic force implicit in a musical
idea,” and he discusses sequences and modulations as examples of such “ways.”
Find an example in the assigned string quartets of a musical idea with such
dynamic force and briefly explain how Haydn “makes us hear” this.
2)
Mary Hunter (119-122) discusses “conversation” as a metaphor for the
string quartet as a genre. Find and briefly discuss an example in the assigned
quartets of a movement or passage to which this metaphor can successfully be
applied.
Type your answers and bring them to class. We'll use them as the basis of our
discussion. If you have any questions,
send me an Email.