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The orchestral revolution : Haydn and the technologies of timbre
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ISBN: 9781107028258 9781139235976 9781139616454 1139616455 9781139625753 1139625756 1139235974 1139612735 9781139612739 1107028256 9781283986700 1283986701 1139610872 1107236983 1139609114 113962203X Year: 2013 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The Orchestral Revolution explores the changing listening culture of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Delving into Enlightenment philosophy, the nature of instruments, compositional practices and reception history, this book describes the birth of a new form of attention to sonority and uncovers the intimate relationship between the development of modern musical aesthetics and the emergence of orchestration. By focusing upon Joseph Haydn's innovative strategies of orchestration and tracing their reception and influence, Emily Dolan shows that the consolidation of the modern orchestra radically altered how people listened to and thought about the expressive capacity of instruments. The orchestra transformed from a mere gathering of instruments into an ideal community full of diverse, nuanced and expressive characters. In addressing this key moment in the history of music, Dolan demonstrates the importance of the materiality of sound in the formation of the modern musical artwork.

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