- Hardcover: 326 pages
- Publisher: Harvard University Press (18 May 1993)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 067438315X
- ISBN-13: 978-0674383159
- Product Dimensions: 24.4 x 16.8 x 2.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,151,260 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In this examination of the theme-and-variations form in the Classical era, Elaine Sisman aims to demonstrate that it was Haydn's prophetic innovations - placing the variation in every position of a multi-movement cycle, broadening its array of theme types, and transforming its larger shape - that truly created the Classical variation. She elucidates the concept and technique of variation, traces Haydn's development and use of the form in symphonies, chamber music, and keyboard works, and then shows how Mozart and Beethoven in their individual ways built on his contributions. Throughout, Sisman's analysis reflects both musical thinking of the Classical period and today's critical interests. She discusses ornamentation and musical figures, explores the pervasive 18th-century notion of music as rhetoric, and relates the style of the variation to that of the other dominant form in this period: sonata form. Her book offers a revaluation of the nature of the variation form and an approach to the music of Haydn. "Haydn and the Classical Variation" is addressed to students and scholars of music, but the author's unaffected style should make it accessible to nonprofessional music lovers as well.
About the Author
Elaine R. Sisman is Associate Professor of Music, Columbia University.
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This book is utterly invaluable to anyone with a serious interest in the music of Haydn or of his time. I cannot recommend it highly enough. The author has done so much to make an enormous amount of information available to musicians and scholars alike and her style of writing makes the densely packed information easily intelligible.
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