The Classical Style

The Classical Style
Author: Charles Rosen
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 564
Release: 1997
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780393040203

Presents a detailed analysis of the musical styles and forms developed by Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven.

Classical Form

Classical Form
Author: William E. Caplin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2000-12-28
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0199881758

Building on ideas first advanced by Arnold Schoenberg and later developed by Erwin Ratz, this book introduces a new theory of form for instrumental music in the classical style. The theory provides a broad set of principles and a comprehensive methodology for the analysis of classical form, from individual ideas, phrases, and themes to the large-scale organization of complete movements. It emphasizes the notion of formal function, that is, the specific role a given formal unit plays in the structural organization of a classical work.

Classical Form

Classical Form
Author: William E. Caplin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 1998
Genre: Music
ISBN: 019514399X

Introducing a new theory of musical form for the analysis of instrumental music of the classical style. The book provides a broad set of principles and a comprehensive methodology for analysing phrases and themes to complete movements. Illustrated with over 250 annotated musical examples by Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven.

Haydn, Mozart, and the Viennese School, 1740-1780

Haydn, Mozart, and the Viennese School, 1740-1780
Author: Daniel Heartz
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 844
Release: 1995
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780393037128

Historians have long tried to place the music of Haydn and Mozart in the lineage of German Lutheran music. In this book, Daniel Heartz shows that the first Viennese school grew from a Catholic inheritance in Italian music and from local tradition, with an admixture of French currents. The generation of composers led by Haydn no longer trained in Italy. By the time young Mozart joined the ranks of the Viennese school, its accomplishments towered above all others of the time. The author's approach can be compared to viewing a majestic mountain range in its totality: the highest peaks take on even greater majesty when seen in their natural context of foothills and lesser peaks. This is how Haydn and Mozart were viewed by their contemporaries, whose world of perception Heartz recreates, using, among other things, the visual art of the period. His focus is on music as a part of cultural history at a particular time and place. Stylistic terms and a priori periods matter less to him than the common denominators of geography, culture, and political history. Book jacket.

Historical Dictionary of Music of the Classical Period

Historical Dictionary of Music of the Classical Period
Author: Bertil H. Van Boer
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 665
Release: 2012
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0810871831

When we speak of "classical music" it often refers rather loosely to serious "art" music but at the core is really the music of the classical period running from about 1730 to 1800, give or take. This was truly one of the most glorious periods for both composition and performance and it is this classical music which is still at the core of today's repertoire. Obvious names connected with this period are Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, but there were many more still reasonably well known like Gluck and C.P.E Bach, and dozens more who are regrettably little known today. This Historical Dictionary of Music of the Classical Period includes not only these composers, but also eminent conductors and performers, patrons, and publishers. There are also dictionary entries on major centers of music-making, typical instruments, important technical terms, and emerging musical forms, including the symphony and opera. Indeed, with a 1,000 cross-referenced entries, there is information on most matters of interest. This is prefaced by an extensive chronology, tracing the course of this period from year to year, and an introduction taking a careful look at the period as a whole. Finally, there is a substantial bibliography. Surely, this is a book which will appeal not only to students and researchers but all music-lovers.

Haydn Studies

Haydn Studies
Author: W. Dean Sutcliffe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 368
Release: 1998-10-22
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780521580526

The advances in Haydn scholarship would have been unthinkable to earlier generations, who honoured the composer more in word than in deed. Haydn Studies deals with many aspects of a composer who is perennially fresh, concentrating principally on matters of reception, style and aesthetics and presenting many interesting readings of the composer's work. Haydn has never played a major role in accounts of cultural history and has never achieved the emblematic status accorded to composers such as Beethoven, Debussy and Stravinsky, in spite of his radical creative agenda: this volume broadens the base of our understanding of the composer.

Bach’s Cycle, Mozart’s Arrow

Bach’s Cycle, Mozart’s Arrow
Author: Karol Berger
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2007
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0520257979

Karol Berger uses the works of Monteverdi, Bach, Mozart and Beethoven to support two claims: first that it was only in the later 18th century that music began to take the flow of time from the past to the future seriously; and second that this change in structure was an aspect of a larger transformation towards modernity.

Musical Elaborations

Musical Elaborations
Author: Edward W. Said
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 138
Release: 1991
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780231073196

Examines the performance of Western high-art music, the politicized theorizing of it, and the use of "melody, solitude, and affirmation" in it.

The Symphonic Repertoire, Volume II

The Symphonic Repertoire, Volume II
Author: A. Peter Brown
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 760
Release: 2002-08-13
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780253334879

More than 170 symphonies from this repertoire are described and analyzed in The First Golden Age of the Viennese Symphony, the first volume of the series to appear.