Divertimenti and Variations
Divertimenti and Variations

Author: Heimito von Doderer

Publisher: Counterpath Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1933996072

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Fiction. Translated from the German by Vincent Kling. A story collection by the acclaimed Austrian novelist of the early and mid twentieth century, DIVERTIMENTI AND VARIATIONS mediates traditional and experimental fictional technique to explore an authentic self and creates musically-based narrative forms. These narrative experiments were begun in 1923, not long after the publication of Joyce's Ulysses, with its fugue-like "Sirens" chapter. Traditional psychological realism combines with four-part "symphonic" experimental form--complete with development, intermezzi, and thematic repetition and variation--to demonstrate how technique is adequate to reveal and resolve conflict. Love interests, family tensions, dreams forcing the dreamers to face their struggles, physical injury, a young blind woman's gaining sight, insanity, unexamined lives--Doderer develops these themes by adeptly employing innovative narrative structures grounded in musical formalisms.

Franz Joseph Haydn's Divertimento with variations for harpsichord four hands, violin, and violone
Franz Joseph Haydn's Divertimento with variations for harpsichord four hands, violin, and violone

Author: Joseph Haydn

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13:

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This edition of Haydn's Divertimento with variations for harpsichord four hands, violin and violone is intended to meet the performer's needs for an accurate score in order to make interpretive decisions, while maintaining the original text. For purposes of visual simplification, the violone part has been moved from the bottom staff and placed below the violin parts. A detailed introduction discusses the origin and characteristics of the score, which was found in a library in Padua. Includes bibliographical references. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Haydn and the Classical Variation
Haydn and the Classical Variation

Author: Elaine Rochelle Sisman

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9780674383159

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Sisman aims to demonstrate that it was Haydn's prophetic innovations that truly created the Classical variation. Her analysis reflects both the musical thinking of the Classical period and contemporary critical interests. The book offers a revaluation of t

Music in Western Civilization
Music in Western Civilization

Author: Paul Henry Lang

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 1158

ISBN-13: 9780393040746

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A comprehensive history of occidental music focuses on the function of music as an expression of the spirit and artistic life of each age.

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

Author: Daniel Heartz

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 844

ISBN-13: 9780393037128

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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.