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Ornamentation Virtuosity
expressiveness text (Balance
between music and drama)
- musical form aria Dramatic
situation Da capo aria
- sharp contrast reicatative & aria
recitativo secco recitativo
accompagnato
- Overture drama (
thematic relationship)
8.Stabat mater dolorosa Pergolesi
Tension
dissonance
Jean-
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Symphony no. 45 Farewell Symphony, 4th
movement Haydn
It was written for Haydn's patron, Prince Nikolaus Esterhzy, while he, Haydn and the
court orchestra were at the Prince's summer palace in Eszterhza. The stay there had
been longer than expected, and most of the musicians had been forced to leave their
wives back at home in Eisenstadt, so in the last movement of the symphony, Haydn
subtly hinted to his patron that perhaps he might like to allow the musicians to return
home: during the final adagio each musician stops playing, snuffs out the candle on his
music stand, and leaves in turn, so that at the end, there are just two muted violins left
(played by Haydn himself and the concertmaster, Luigi Tomasini (it)). Esterhzy seems
to have understood the message: the court returned to Eisenstadt the day following the
performance.
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Symphony no. 55 The Schoolmaster, 1st
movement Haydn
This period was one of experimentation. Already a masterful composer, Haydn
struggled with the notion of creating something new and exciting with every
composition. Some compositions serve as a testing ground for new techniques. Though
relatively conservative as a whole, the opening movement contains a relatively new,
and successfully executed, technique of false recapitulation; after 31 measures of
development, Haydn appears to begin the recapitulation of the first theme, but, in the
witty style which would typify late Haydn, he deviates back into development for an
extended period (over 30 measures) before bringing the true conclusion. Excepting
this, however, the movement lacks somewhat in thematic/melodic material as well has
the bold harmonic excursions found in contemporaneous works (such as Symphonies
#52 and #54).
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Haydn distinguishes each section of the sonata form in this movement by use of
strong contrasts of stability and instability. Before revealing the first theme of
the symphony, Haydn opens this movement with a slow introduction that begins
in the tonic G major and modulates through to the parallel minor and then to
the dominant. He begins the first theme in the tonic but on a dominant seventh
chord. This is very unusual of symphonies of the time but it reflects an aspect of
Haydns unique compositional characteristics. Because the rest of the Oxford
will reflect many of the ideas presented in this first theme, this symphony has
been termed monothematic.
Following the first theme is the transition, which allows Haydn to modulate to
the dominant. The second theme begins with the opening idea of the
movement, but in the dominant key. As this theme progresses it enters a
section of minor-mode before entering into the closing theme. Haydn stays in
the dominant key through the closing of the first movement. In the development
section, Haydn borrows themes from the exposition, then develops and
embellishes them. He adds sections of subject change and digression from the
original theme as well as moments of rest or silence. These qualities of the
development are all very characteristic of Haydn. Furthermore, he draws upon
the older style of intricate counterpoint to enhance the galante style of the
symphony.
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- London 1795
- Slow introduction symphony
Haydn
- Melody introduction
sense Meter ( 4 Dies irae
chant )
- development exposition
Introduction
1st subject
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2 nd subject
virtuosic
passages )
- Virtuosic display on Violin I
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part
development
- rhythm
- Extream dynamic contrast
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quartet 30 )
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- Rondo
- Coda 148 rest
fermata
chord theme
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- Oratorio Handel
1796-1798
ambiguity of tonality
dramatic surprises
use of deceptive cadences
interruption of rhythmic flow or movement to
cadence
- diminished harmony