Fermata: Associate Professor W Dean Sutcliffe

"Haydn and the Shapes of Sociability"

There is little Western art music that more clearly sets out to give pleasure or is more accessible than that of the late eighteenth century, and Haydn is a central figure in this phenomenon. If such precepts as reciprocity, politeness and the exchange of ideas were embodied in the sociable music of the Enlightenment, how precisely did this operate?

Associate Professor W. Dean Sutcliffe’s paper names and illustrates some of the common patterns that convey the sociable impulse.

Biography:
W. Dean Sutcliffe is Associate Professor in the School of Music at The University of Auckland, and co-editor of Eighteenth-Century Music. Recent work includes “Before the Joke: Texture and Sociability in the Largo of Haydn's Op. 33 No. 2” (Journal of Musicological Research, 28/2, [2009]) and “Expressive Ambivalence in Haydn’s Symphonic Slow Movements of the 1770s” (The Journal of Musicology, 27/1 [2010]). He was awarded the Dent Medal for 2009 by the Royal Musical Association.

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