SYMPHONY SEMINAR -- PREPARATION 6

(F-09)

For Monday 26 October

You don’t need to write up the prep this time, since you have a midterm to write. But try to read the following selections about the social contexts of symphonies in the 18^th century. They are posted and also on reserve in the music library.

Neal Zaslaw, Mozart’s Symphonies (1989), 1-15 [Salzburg]

John Spitzer and Neal Zaslaw, The Birth of the Orchestra (2004), 197-204 [Paris], 288-293 [English amateurs], 334-337 [circulation of music and musicians];

Mary Sue Morrow, Concert Life in Haydn’s Vienna (1989), 13-20, 27-31 [private concerts], 49-61 [public concerts].