Guest lecturer Ethan Haimo

Good news for us Haydn fans! This Thursday at 4 pm in MB 1201, Professor Ethan Haimo will give a lecture "Haydn's Two and Three-Part Expositions." Here is the abstract:

In an influential article from 1963, Jens Peter Larsen argued that although Haydn's expositions usually are divided into two parts, there are a number of works that have three-part expositions.  This view of Haydn's expositions has won widespread acceptance and the three-part exposition has come to be regarded as an important, if occasional, feature of Haydn's expositions.  More recently, James Hepokoski and Warren Darcy adopted Larsen's three-part exposition as one subtype of what they call the continuous exposition.  In this paper it is argued that both Larsen's distinction between two- and three-part expositions and the continuous exposition of Hepokoski and Darcy are problematic concepts.  A new way of understanding the subdivisions of Haydn's expositions is proposed, giving priority to the tonal organization as outlined by the cadential structure.