Associated through descriptive texts with literature, politics,
religion, and other subjects, 'characteristic' symphonies offer an
opportunity to study instrumental music as it engages important
social and political debates of the eighteenth and early nineteenth
centuries. This first full-length study of the genre illuminates
the relationship between symphonies and their aesthetic and social
contexts by focussing on the musical representation of feeling,
human physical movement, and the passage of time. The works
discussed include Beethoven's Pastoral and Eroica Symphonies,
Haydn's Seven Last Words of our Savior on the Cross, Carl Ditters
von Dittersdorf's symphonies on Ovid's Metamorphoses, and
orchestral battle reenactments of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic
eras. A separate chapter details the aesthetic context within which
characteristic symphonies were conceived, as well as their
subsequent reception, and a series of appendixes summarises
bibliographic information for over 225 relevant examples.
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