Jokes As Art:

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Jokes As Art

• The Music of Franz Josef Haydn

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Franz Josef Haydn
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How can music express humor?
How can music be intelligible
w/o recourse to words?
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Making Music Intelligible II Jok
es as Art
A. Juxtapose incongruous/contradictory elements
B. Establish expected frame of reference,
then step outside frame
C. Violate norms of genre
D. Elements reversed or switched
E. Displace or replace an element
F. BIG IDEA Absolute music (like jokes) becomes

expressive by manipulating conventions
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II. Haydns Biography
A. Franz Josef Haydn, b. 1732
B. Esterhazy Haydns chief patrons
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Esterhaza, Palace of the Esterhazy
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II. Haydns Biography
A. Franz Josef Haydn, b. 1732
B. Esterhazy Haydns chief patrons
C. Dedications from Mozart Teaches Beethoven
D. 1790s, London Tours London Symphonies
E. Significant Instrumental Works
Symphonies (last 12 London Symphonies)
String Quartets
F. Significant Vocal Works Oratorios Th
e Seasons The Creation influenced by
Handels oratorios
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Haydn Symphony 88 and Conventions of Classic
al Symphonies
A. From Sinfonia to Symphony
B. First Movement Conventions
C. Second Movements
D. Third Movements
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Minuet formrounded binary within ABA
A B A
Minuet Trio Minuet Repeated
(actually another
minuet)

a b a c d c
a b a
a a b a b a c c d c d c a b a
Minuet Trio Forms Haydn Surprise Symph.,
3rd Mvmt. (CD 2/7) and Mozart, A Little Night
Music, 3rd Mvmt. (2/6)
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Haydn Symphony 88 and Conventions of C
lassical Symphonies
A. From Sinfonia to Symphony
B. First Movement Conventions
C. Second Movements
D. Third Movements
E. Fourth Movements
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IV. Haydn Symphony 88, finale
A. Surprise ReturnFavorite Technique of Haydn
B. Opening Theme (A) Rounded Binary
A a b a
b actually a inverted
a
b
. . . . . . . . . . . .
C. Haydn often works with short motives
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IV. Haydn Symphony 88, finale
5 6 7 ?
Haydn often uses 1st theme again
where youd expect 2nd theme
D. Overall form of movement Rondo
A tr B tr A tr C tr A
Coda
a b a
a b a
a b a
B theme A in new key Dominant (V)
Counterpoint/ Imitation based on a
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