Richard WillThe Characteristic Symphony in the Age of Haydn and Beethoven
Richard Will is Assistant Professor of Music History at the University of Washington. He has articles published or forthcoming on Beethoven, Haydn, and other topics in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century music in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Music and Letters, and Beethoven Forum. He has also written a series of critical essays on Jimi Hendrix for the International Dictionary of Black Composers.
Introduction
1. Paradise lost
2. Preaching the emotions
3. The boundaries of the art
4. Paradise regained
5. Making memories
Appendixes: 1. Thematic index of characteristic symphonies
2. Pastoral symphonies and movements
3. Symphonies and movements by subject.
