The Orchestral Revolution: Haydn and the Technologies of Timbre
Author:   Emily I. Dolan (University of Pennsylvania)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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9781107028258


Pages:   306
Publication Date:   17 January 2013
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Emily I. Dolan (University of Pennsylvania)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 24.90cm
Weight:   0.710kg
ISBN:  

9781107028258


ISBN 10:   1107028256
Pages:   306
Publication Date:   17 January 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. Lessons at the ocular harpsichord; 2. The idea of timbre; 3. Haydn, orchestration, and re-orchestration; 4. The republic of sound; 5. The real museum of musical works; 6. The abuse of the orchestra; Epilogue: orchestral alchemy.

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Well written throughout and richly illustrated, Dolan s volume is a pleasure to read. Notes


'Well written throughout and richly illustrated, Dolan's volume is a pleasure to read.' Notes


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Emily Dolan is an Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Pennsylvania, where she has taught since 2006. She is a specialist in the musical culture of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and her research focuses on the history of orchestration, instrumentality and aesthetics, exploring the intersections between music, science and technology. She has published articles in Current Musicology, Eighteenth-Century Music, Studia Musicologica, Popular Music, Opera Quarterly and 19th-Century Music. Dolan has been a member of the Penn Humanities forum and was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study in 2009–10.

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