Instrumental Music in an Age of Sociability

Sutcliffe, W. Dean

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“…1717See my discussion of the link between minor keys and particular musical conventions (Sutcliffe 2020, pp. 503–14).…”

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What Is Haydn Doing in a John Field Nocturne?

Sutcliffe¹

2023

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The middle section of John Field's Nocturne No. 13 in D minor, published in 1834, towards the end of the composer's life, begins with what appears to be a quotation from the start of the finale of Haydn's Quartet in E♭ major Op. 76 No. 6. Apart from the transposition of Haydn's theme to D major and the use of a different medium, the respective passages are all but identical. This unlikely correspondence is all but unknown and has never been critically discussed. I show that the quotation is no isolated event; indeed, it turns out to be integral to Field's conception of the entire nocturne. The first section, at least in retrospect, can be heard to work with the same shapes, though in the minor mode, before they are transformed by their major‐mode guise in the following più moto section. I consider the affective implications of the quotation in the context of the whole work as well as its possible significance for Field himself and his milieu. Beyond those considerations, the quotation is significant for what it tells us about the reception of Haydn in a supposedly hostile or indifferent nineteenth century.

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“…1717See my discussion of the link between minor keys and particular musical conventions (Sutcliffe 2020, pp. 503–14).…”

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What Is Haydn Doing in a John Field Nocturne?

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2023

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Dr. Charles Burney and the Organ

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2021

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Whereas Dr Burney's writings are often mentioned in studies on eighteenth-century music, not much interest seems to have been given specifically to his relation to the organ, which played an important part in his professional career as a practising musician. No better introduction to the aesthetic ethos of the eighteenth-century English organ can be found than in Burney's remarks disseminated in his various writings. Taken together, they construct a coherent discourse on taste and constitute an aesthetic. Burney's view of the organ is indicative of a broader ethos of moderation that permeates his whole work, and is at one with the dominant moral philosophy of Georgian England. This conception is ripe with patriotic undertones, while it also articulates a constant plea for politeness as a condition for harmonious social interaction. He believed that moderation, simplicity, and fancy were the constituents of good taste as well as good manners.

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Instrumental Music in an Age of Sociability

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What Is Haydn Doing in a John Field Nocturne?

What Is Haydn Doing in a John Field Nocturne?

Dr. Charles Burney and the Organ

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