THE SYMPHONY – PREPARATION 9
(S-09)
For Monday Nov 16
Please read the following:
David P. Schroeder, Haydn and the Enlightenment – The Late Symphonies and their Audience
(1997), “Introduction” (1-5), “Symphonic Intelligibility and Sonata Form”
(125-142)
Mark Evan Bonds, “The Symphony as Pindaric Ode,” in Haydn and his World (ed. Elaine Sisman,
1997), 131-153.
They’re on reserve in the
library and also posted online.
I’ve put scores of the
following Haydn symphonies on reserve and online:
You’ll find multiple
recordings on
Answer both of the following
questions more briefly than they deserve:
1) Discuss a
passage in one of these symphonies that illlustrates one of the techniques that
Schroeder says Haydn uses to make instrumental music “intelligible.”
2) Bonds asserts on p.138 “The virtuosity demanded by the symphony is
compositional rathe rthan performatvie and thus demands a correspondingly
higher degrtee of poetic – compositional – artifice.”
Discuss a passage in one of these symphonies (a
different symphony, please) that illustrates this point.