Vocabulary
Chapter 45 - Joseph Haydn: Instrumental Music
Word
Definition
1. Esterhazy family
1. The richest and most influential among the German-speaking aristocrats of Hungary with vast estates southeast of Vienna.
2. A viola da gamba like instrument with six strings; Haydn wrote 126 trios for this instrument that was played by his patron Nikolaus Esterhazy.
2. Baryton
3. Number by which Josef Haydn's individual works may be identified following the catalogue prepared by the Dutch musicologist Anthony Hoboken.
3. Hoboken (Hob.) number
4. Triple meter dance in rounded binary
4. Minuet
5. Pair of movements with each usually constructed in rounded binary form; the trio often scored for fewer instruments, sometimes only three.
5. Minuet & trio
6. Special orchestral style; a concerto-like approach to the use of the orchestra in which individual instruments regularly emerge from the orchestra texture to function as soloists.
6. Concertante
7. Haydn's symphony No. 45, one of several later symphonies informed by extra-musical phenomena;
7. "Farewell" Symphony
8. German for "Storm and Stress"; refers to a small but significant group of works written around 1770 that are marked agitated, impassioned writing such as Mozart's Symphony No. 25 (K. 183)
8. Sturm und Drang
9. Meaning "joke" for its playful tone; it replaces the movement entitled "minuet" for the first time in Haydn's set of six string quartets Opus 33.
9. Scherzo
10.Opus 33 No. 3, nicknamed "Bird" Quartet because the strings sound distinctly like birds; beginning of the piece is in sonata form.
10. "Bird" Quartet
11. Opus 76 No. 3 reflects the political and military events of the Napoleonic Wars (1796-1815).
11."Emperor" Quartet
12. Commissioned work of Haydn; melody for the text Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser (God Preserve Emperor Franz)
12. The Emperor's Hymn
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13. Paris Symphonies
13. The six symphonies Haydn created subsequently (Nos. 82-87).
14.London Symphonies
14.Twelve symphonies Haydn composed 1791-1795
15.No. 94; one of Haydn's most popular London Symphonies, it was premiered in 1792; named for the second movement, designed-according to Haydn himself-"to surprise the public" or even "shock the sleepers."
15."Surprise" Symphony
16.Oratorio composed between 1796 and 1798; recounts the story of the creation of the world as told in the Book of Genesis
16. The Creation
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17.K0chel (K) number
17.Catalog number.