Making Light: Haydn, Musical Camp, and the Long Shadow of German Idealism

Contents

• List of Musical Examples ix
• Preface xi
• Acknowledgments xvii
• About the Companion Website xxi
• Part I. Approached the Absolute
• 1. Idealizing Music 3
• Part II. Haydn's Difference
• 2. Entertaining Possibilities in Haydn's Symphonies 53
• 3. Haydn, the String Quartet, and the (D)evolution of the Chamber Ideal 101
• Part III. New World Dualities
• 4. Popular Music contra German Idealism: Anglo-American Rebellions from Minstrelsy to Camp 137
• 5. "Popular Music" qua German Idealism: Authenticity and Its Outliers 221
• 6. Musical Virtues and Vices in the Latter-Day New World 253
• Appendix A. More Extended Musical Examples 279
• Appendix B. Listing of Video Examples from Films 293
• Notes 295
• Bibliography 343
• Index 367