Haydn's "ingenious jesting with art" : contexts of musical wit and humor, Gretchen A. Wheelock

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Haydn's "ingenious jesting with art" : contexts of musical wit and humor, Gretchen A. Wheelock

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contexts of musical wit and humor

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Gretchen A. Wheelock

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• Haydn's "ingenious jesting with art" : contexts of musical wit and humor

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• New York, Schirmer Books, Toronto, Maxwell Macmillan Canada, New York, Maxwell Macmillan International, ©1992

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-257) and index

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Contents

Preface -- The musical joke : a laughing matter?. Two musical jokes : jesting with intent? ; On surprise and jokes twice-told -- The decorum of wit and the nature of humor in eighteenth-century essays. The ambivalence of wit ; Wit : true and false ; Humor and the humorist ; The German connection -- "A question of taste?" : early views of Haydn as humorist. The decorum of style and genre ; Incompatible manners : the musical evidence examined ; The bias of temperament ; Changing views of the musical humorist -- Humorous manners and the "really new minuet". The danced minuet ; The novelty of artful display ; Courtly and rustic airs ; Interruptions, disorders, and delays ; Theatrical gestures and the display of humor -- Engaging wit in the chamber : opus 33 revisited. "Models" of conversation ; New prospects and strategies ; (De)parting gestures ; "Gli scherzi" -- Extended play in eccentric finales. Overture/finale : a distinguishing connection ; Symphonic scherzandi ; Deceptively familiar finales -- The paradox of distraction. "Il distratto" ; The attraction of distraction ; Characterizing the humorous -- "The great art of seeming familiar". Early essays on musical wit and humor ; The playful art of combinations ; Artful play and the role of the listener

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25248145

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25 cm

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xii, 269 pages

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9780028728551

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91046730

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music

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