The Virtual Haydn

Paradox of a Twenty-First-Century Keyboardist

Tom Beghin

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English

University of Chicago Press
22 May 2015

Music; Theory of music & musicology; Baroque music (c 1600 to c 1750); Classical music (c 1750 to c 1830)

Series: Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith

Haydn's music has been performed continuously for more than two hundred years. But what do we play, and what do we listen to, when it comes to Haydn? Can we still appreciate the rich rhetorical nuances of this music, which from its earliest days was meant to be played by professionals and amateurs alike?

WithThe Virtual Haydn, Tom Beghin-himself a professional keyboard player-delves deeply into eighteenth-century history and musicology to help us hear a properly complex Haydn. Unusually for a scholarly work, the book is presented in the first person, as Beghin takes us on what is clearly a very personal journey into the past. When a discussion of a group of Viennese sonatas, for example, leads him into an analysis of the contemporary interest in physiognomy, Beghin applies what he learns about the role of facial expressions during his own performance of the music. Elsewhere, he analyzes gesture and gender, changes in keyboard technology, and the role of amateurs in eighteenth-century musical culture.

The resulting book is itself a fascinating, bravura performance, one that partakes of eighteenth-century idiosyncrasy while drawing on a panoply of twenty-first-century knowledge.

By: Tom Beghin
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 23mm, Width: 16mm, Spine: 3mm
Weight: 680g
ISBN: 9780226156774
ISBN 10: 022615677X
Series: Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 22 May 2015
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Tom Beghin is associate professor at McGill University in Montreal and an internationally active performer on historical keyboards. He is the author of Haydn and the Performance of Rhetoric.

Reviews for The Virtual Haydn: Paradox of a Twenty-First-Century Keyboardist

""A highly original book that places the performer (historical and contemporary) at the center of scholarly inquiry; it is a virtuosic exercise in historical imagining."" (Annette Richards, Cornell University)""