The String Quartets of Joseph Haydn

Author:   Floyd Grave (, Music Department at Rutgers University) ,  Margaret Grave
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
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Pages:   396
Publication Date:   20 November 2008
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Author:   Floyd Grave (, Music Department at Rutgers University) ,  Margaret Grave
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.40cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 15.60cm
Weight:   0.553kg
ISBN:  

9780195382952


ISBN 10:   0195382951
Pages:   396
Publication Date:   20 November 2008
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction Part I: Points of Departure 1: The Repertory 2: Genre and Character 3: Texture, Ensemble, Technique, and Sonority Part II: Formal Perimeters 4: Sonata Form 5: The Dance Movement 6: Variation 7: Other Forms: Fugue, Rondo, and Miscellaneous Nonstandard Designs Part III: The Opus Groups 8: The Earliest Quartets (ca. 1755-60 [?ca. 1757-59]): Op. o; Op. 1 Nos. 1,2,3,4, and 6; Op. 2 Nos. 1,2,4, and 6 9: Op. 9 (ca.1768-70) and Op. 17 (1771) 10: Op. 20 (1772) 11: Op. 33 (1781) and Op. 42 ([?1784-] 1785) 12: Op. 50 (1787) 13: Op. 54/55 (1788)

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Both of them eminent scholars, Floyd and Margaret Grave bring to this undertaking not only a comprehensive knowledge of the existing literature but also an admirable ability to present their material coherently and to supplement it with their own analytical insights * Early Music * The book is intelligently organized, mindful of unfair value judgments against earlier works and simply packed full of information. * Karen Hiles, Cambridge journal Eighteenth-Century Music *


The book is intelligently organized, mindful of unfair value judgments against earlier works and simply packed full of information. Karen Hiles, Cambridge journal Eighteenth-Century Music Both of them eminent scholars, Floyd and Margaret Grave bring to this undertaking not only a comprehensive knowledge of the existing literature but also an admirable ability to present their material coherently and to supplement it with their own analytical insights Early Music


The book is intelligently organized, mindful of unfair value judgments against earlier works and simply packed full of information. Karen Hiles, Cambridge journal Eighteenth-Century Music


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Floyd and Margaret Grave have worked both independently and together on a variety of research projects, centering mostly on problems of eighteenth-century music sources, theory, criticism, and analysis. Floyd Grave currently teaches in the Music Department at Rutgers University, where he has served as director of the graduate programs in musicology, music theory, and composition. He has also taught at New York University and the University of Virginia. Both Floyd and Margaret have received numerous research grants and contributed articles to the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians , first and second editions.

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