Ut Rhetorica Artes: The rhetorical theory of the sister arts
Editors
Tom Beghin and Sander M. Goldberg
Document Type
Chapter
Publication Date
2007
Publication Title
Haydn and the Performance of Rhetoric
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Publisher Location
Chicago, IL
First page number:
61
Last page number:
79
Abstract
Haydn is the last major composer whose music was regularly discussed by his contemporaries in terms derived from the classical tradition of rhetoric. Within a generation of his death, that discourse had fallen from favor, but the historical relationship between Haydn and the rhetorical tradition endured. In this volume, a distinguished group of contributors in fields from classics to literature to musicology restores the rhetorical model to prominence and shows what can be achieved by returning to the idea of music as a rhetorical process. An accompanying DVD, specially designed for this project, presents performances and illustrations keyed to the book's chapters, making musicological arguments accessible to nonspecialists and advancing additional arguments of its own through the medium of performance. The volume thus reaches beyond musicology to enrich and complicate the larger debate over rhetoric's role in eighteenth-century culture.
Disciplines
Literature in English, British Isles | Other Classics | Other Music
Language
English
Permissions
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Repository Citation
Erwin, T.
(2007).
Ut Rhetorica Artes: The rhetorical theory of the sister arts. In Tom Beghin and Sander M. Goldberg,
Haydn and the Performance of Rhetoric
61-79.
Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/english_fac_articles/3