Haydn and Hypermeter: A Scaffolded Approach for Undergraduate Music Theory
Jennifer Salamone’s essay, “Haydn and Hypermeter: A Scaffolded Approach for Undergraduate Music Theory,” offers a graded approach for teaching undergraduates from first-year through upper-level study about Haydn’s inimitable manipulation of hypermeter.
Dancing a Minuet with Haydn via Koch: A New Approach to a Familiar Project
by Owen Belcher and David Thurmaier
Owen Belcher and David Thurmaier, in “Dancing a Minuet with Haydn via Koch: A New Approach to a Familiar Project,” advance a classroom-tested revision of the undergraduate minuet composition project using an approach gleaned from Heinrich Christoph Koch’s 1787 Introductory Essay on Composition.
What Haydn Teaches Us About Sonata Form: The Da Capo Aria and the Early Keyboard Sonatas, Hob. XVI:1 & 3
In “What Haydn Teaches Us About Sonata Form: The Da Capo Aria and the Early Keyboard Sonatas, Hob. XVI:1, 3,” Adem Merter Birson endeavors to correct this by approaching these early sonatas through an analysis of their stylistic forerunner: the da capo aria.
Joseph Haydn and the New Formenlehre: Teaching Sonata Form with His Solo Keyboard Works
Using approaches from three recent writers on form, James MacKay suggests that Haydn’s sonatas can offer students a more flexible view of sonata form in “Joseph Haydn and the New Formenlehre: Teaching Sonata Form with His Solo Keyboard Works.”
Teaching Harmony, Voice Leading, and Form with Haydn’s Early Keyboard Sonatas
by Olga Sánchez-Kisielewska
Olga Sánchez-Kisielewska advances an elegant blueprint for incorporating the oft-neglected early sonatas into the classroom through three sets of activities for first-year students in “Teaching Harmony, Voice Leading, and Form with Haydn’s Early Keyboard Sonatas.”
Choose Your Own Adventure: Scaffolding Multi-Movement Analysis through Haydn’s Sonata in C Major, Hob. XVI:10
In “Choose Your Own Adventure: Scaffolding Multi-Movement Analysis through Haydn’s Sonata in C Major, Hob. XVI:10,” Angela Ripley argues for the importance of teaching complete multi-movement works, and offers several pathways for doing so at different levels of a theory curriculum.