Table of Contents

Foreword Ian Bent; Preface; Author's note; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. The Farewell Symphony: 1. The construction of the whole; 2. Instability; 3. Resolution; 4. The program; Part II. Cyclic Organization in Haydn's Instrumental Music: 5. Progressive form and the rhetoric of instability; 6. Integration of the cycle; 7. Extramusical associations; 8. Individual compositions; Historiographical conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

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This volume offers a new view of Joseph Haydn's instrumental music.