The Viennese Minor-Key Symphony in the Age of Haydn and Mozart

305 Pages·2014·5.409 MB·English

by  Matthew Riley

The Viennese Minor-Key Symphony in
the Age of Haydn and Mozart

The Viennese Minor-Key
Symphony in the Age of Haydn
and Mozart
Matthew Riley
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Riley, Matthew, 1975–, author.
The Viennese minor-key symphony in the age of Haydn and Mozart / Matthew Riley.
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{ CONTENTS }
Acknowledgments vii
Tables, Figures, and Music Examples ix
1. The Viennese Minor-Key Symphony 1
2. Imperial Court Composers: Wagenseil, Gassmann, Ordonez 39
3. Vaňhal to 1771: Five First Movements 70
4. Two Subgeneric Conventions: The Contrapuntal Minuet, the
Stormy Finale 102
5. Studies in Haydn’s Minor-Key Symphonies 1763–72 140
6. Vaňhal’s New Paths: Four Later Symphonies 172
7. Modal Reversal and Characteristic Symphonies 201
8. Mozart and the Minor-Key Symphony 235
Appendix 1. Thematic Catalogs Consulted for the
Information in Table 1.1 263
Appendix 2. Sources of the Symphonies Used for Analysis;
CD Recordings 265
Glossary of Analytical Terms 267
Bibliography 271
Index 283

{ ACKNOWLEDGMENTS }
The following institutions assisted my research: Barber Music Library, University
of Birmingham; Bodleian Library, Oxford University; British Library; Det
kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen; Henry Watson Music Library, Manchester;
Narodní muzeum, Prague. I am grateful also to the following institutions which
granted me permission to use extracts from manuscripts in their collections for
my music examples: Biblioteca del Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini, Florence (Exx.
4.12, 7.8, and 7.9); Moravské zemské muzeum, Brno (Exx. 2.4, 2.5, and 2.6); Fürst
Thurn und Taxis Zentralarchiv und Hofbibliothek, Regensburg (Exx. 6.8, 6.9, 6.10,
and 6.11); Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Musikabteilung
mit Mendelssohn-Archiv (KH 5547; Ex. 2.2). I am grateful to my Commissioning
Editor and the staff at Oxford University Press for seeing this book into print. My
greatest debt is to previous scholarship; it is recorded in the notes to each chapter.

{TABLES, FIGURES, AND MUSIC EXAMPLES}
Tables
1.1 Viennese minor-key symphonies c. 1760–90 studied for this book 10
1.2 Viennese minor-key symphonies c. 1760–90 with attribution but not
surviving in source 11
4.1 Contrapuntal minor-key minuets 104
4.2 Fast sonata-form minor-key finales notated in 2/2 or 4/4 122
5.1 Haydn 44/i, subrotational structure of exposition 154
6.1 Distinctive traits of four later Vaňhal minor-key symphonies,
plus the transitional symphony a2 177
6.2 Appearances of the main theme’s presentation phrase in e2/i 182
7.1 Viennese minor-key symphonies that end in major but without a
movement that changes mode 202
7.2 Movements of Viennese minor-key symphonies that turn to major 204
7.3 Late eighteenth-century symphonies with storms (adapted from Will,
“Time, Morality and Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony”
and The Characteristic Symphony); overtures excluded 222
7.4 Characteristic subtitles, title-page explanations, and score
annotations in Wranitzky’s minor-key symphonies 227
7.5 Paul Wranitzky’s minor-key symphonies on a scale from abstract
to characteristic 228
8.1 Fast minor-key symphonic movements by Mozart 238
8.2 Characteristic features in certain fast minor-key sonata-form
instrumental movements by Mozart 239
8.3 Leopold Mozart’s written comments on the autograph
of the Thamos entr’actes 242
Figures
1.1 Minor-key outer-movement expositions with mediant tutti: two types 14
2.1 Ordonez G7/i, length of paragraphs 68
3.1 Vaňhal e1/i, length of paragraphs 87
3.2 Vaňhal c2/i, length of paragraphs 89
5.1 Haydn 49/i, rotational structure 151