Haydn, The Creation
Haydn, The Creation

Author: Bruce Campbell Mac Intyre

Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13:

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"Haydn: The Creation" presents a thorough treatment of the genesis, structure, and performance implications of this perennial favorite. This volume draws upon recent research on the oratorio and on "The Creation" in particular. Incorporating the author's own research over the last 15 years, this volume traces the two-hundred-year history of the piece, analyzes its style, and brings together in a single source the relevant criticism and significant observations of the other specialists in this field, making it the definitive volume on this work for decades to come. Bruce MacIntyre is Associate Professor of Music at Brooklyn College and CUNY Graduate Center where he teaches general courses in musicology as well as specialized courses on late eighteenth-century music, the mass and oratorio, and the music of Haydn.

Haydn: The Creation
Haydn: The Creation

Author: Nicholas Temperley

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1991-05-31

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9780521378659

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Haydn's Creation is one of the great masterpieces of the classical period. In this absorbing and original account the author places the work within the oratorio tradition, contrasting the theological and literary character of the English libretto with the Viennese milieu of the first performances. The complete text is provided in both English and German versions as a reference point for discussion of the design of the work and the musical treatment of the words. A more detailed musical chapter examines the work through the movement types it employs - arias and ensembles, recitative and choruses - distinguishing the Handelian model from Haydn's own classical idiom. Nicholas Temperley also discusses the changing performance traditions of this work, surveys the critical reception throughout its history and quotes from the most signifcant critical literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.