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Haydn, the Creation

Haydn, the Creation

Temperley, Nicholas

Paperback

Series: Cambridge Music Handbooks

Music Reference

Publisher Price: $20.00

ISBN10: 0521378656
ISBN13: 9780521378659
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: May 31 1991
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.33 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Haydn's Creation is one of the great masterpieces of the classical period. This absorbing and original account of the work provides an indispensable guide for the concert-goer, performer and student alike.

The author places the work within the oratorio tradition, bearing in mind its intended early audiences in both Austria and England, and he contrasts 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, including questions of Haydn's pictorialism. A more detailed musical chapter examines the work through the movement types it employs -- arias and ensembles, recitatives and choruses -- distinguishing the Handelian model from Haydn's own classical idiom.

Nicholas Temperley also discusses the changing performance traditions of this work and surveys the critical reception throughout its history. In a useful appendix he quotes from the most significant critical literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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