1 James Webster, ‘Joseph Haydn: Climax of the “Sturm und Drang” (c.1772)’, programme notes accompanying the recording of Haydn's complete symphonies by The Academy of Ancient Music, conducted by Christopher Hogwood, volume 7 (Decca/L'Oiseau-Lyre CD 443 777–2, 1996), 24.

2 Webster, ‘Climax of the “Sturm und Drang”’, 25.

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11 Sisman, ‘Haydn's Theater Symphonies’, 326. As she notes, this couplet was singled out by the protagonist of Johann Wolfgang Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters theatralische Sendung as the key to Hamlet's entire behaviour.

12 Sisman, ‘Haydn's Theater Symphonies’, 327.

13 Edwards, George, ‘Papa Doc's Recap Caper: Haydn and Temporal Dyslexia’, in Haydn Studies, ed. Sutcliffe, Dean (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), 293Google Scholar, observes that ‘Haydn has tremendous confidence in the willingness of the listener to supply mentally events which are not physically present’, but he refers to bars 98–108. In bars 4 and 8 the effect of filling in the blanks is even more pronounced.

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15 Atkins (letter to the editor, 197) points out that the expected resolution of G♯ to A does take place in the melody, yet it is not accompanied by the harmonic resolution of the dominant to the tonic.

16 This rule is ubiquitous in eighteenth-century music theory. For detailed discussion see Mirka, Danuta, Metric Manipulations in Haydn and Mozart: Chamber Music for Strings, 1787–1791 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), 74–82CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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18 Stages of this perceptual process correspond to three stages of ‘embodied musical meaning’ distinguished by Meyer, Leonard B. in Emotion and Meaning in Music (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1956), 37–38Google Scholar. The hypothetical meaning, represented by the expectation of cadences, is frustrated during the general pauses. When the new phrases start with the chords which were expected to close the preceding phrases, the evident meaning is that the cadences are delayed. The determinate meaning arises when the phrases continue beyond the first chords, revealing that the cadences are absent.

19 For an excellent discussion of the expressive function of rhetorical figures see Vickers, Brian, In Defence of Rhetoric (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988), 294–339Google Scholar.

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25 Marpurg, Kritische Briefe, volume 2, 309–310. Marpurg's discussion of punctuation marks forms part of his ‘Unterricht vom Recitativ’ (Lessons on Recitative). He takes his examples of ellipsis and aposiopesis from operatic recitatives and goes on to show their settings by Hasse and Graun.

26 Sisman, ‘Haydn's Theater Symphonies’, 327.

27 In addition, the two notes are inverted so that the G♯, expected to occur in the top voice by analogy with D♯ in bar 11, is played by the second violins while the first violins play the D.

28 Quintilian, Institutio oratoria, book 9, section 3, paragraph 50, quoted by Vickers, In Defence of Rhetoric, 304.

29 Koch, , Versuch, volume 3 (Leipzig: Böhme, 1793), 206Google Scholar; Introductory Essay, 155. The ‘displaced dynamic accent’ is the change to forte in bar 11. Sisman's annotations (‘Haydn's Theater Symphonies’, 328, Example 8) suggest that this accent results in misplacement of two-bar incises, yet it does not seem to affect grouping. Rather, it creates syncopation against the two-bar hypermetre which corresponds to the composed 6/4 metre of this passage.

30 For a discussion of this phenomenon and the role of the ‘empty bar’ in its identification see Zenck, Claudia Maurer, Vom Takt: Untersuchungen zur Theorie und kompositorischen Praxis im ausgehenden 18. und beginnenden 19. Jahrhundert (Vienna: Böhlau, 2001), 43–44Google Scholar, and my Metric Manipulations, 217–232.

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32 Koch, Versuch, volume 3, 84; Introductory Essay, 95.

33 Koch, Versuch, volume 3, 145–146; Introductory Essay, 125.

34 Koch, Versuch, volume 3, 147; Introductory Essay, 126, translation amended.

35 Koch, Versuch, volume 3, 76; Introductory Essay, 93.

36 The Fonte is defined and discussed along with two other gambits, Monte and Ponte, by Riepel, Joseph in Anfangsgründe zur musicalischen Setzkunst, volume 2: Grundregeln zur Tonordnung insgemein (Frankfurt and Leipzig, 1755), 44–48Google Scholar. For a concise summary of Riepel's discussion see Ratner, Classic Music, 213–214. A thorough discussion of the Fonte is offered by Gjerdingen, Robert O., Music in the Galant Style (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), 61–71Google Scholar.

37 Sisman, ‘Haydn's Theater Symphonies’, 328, Example 8, points to this curtailment in an annotation: ‘not parallel in duration and accomp[animent]’.

38 Koch, Versuch, volume 3, 88; Introductory Essay, 98.

39 The formal templates suitable for slow movements of symphonies include sonata form with or without development, rondo and variation (Koch, Versuch, volume 3, 311–314; Introductory Essay, 201–202).

40 ‘Doubtful modulation’ (zweifelhafte Modulation) occurs in one of two types of dubitatio described by Forkel, Allgemeine Geschichte, volume 1, 58.

41 The conclusion of this movement is analysed in detail by Webster, , Haydn's ‘Farewell’ Symphony and the Idea of Classical Style (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), 147, 150–152CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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46 Brown, A. Peter, The First Golden Age of the Viennese Symphony: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002), 147Google Scholar. This analytical reading is clearly provoked by the cadential manipulation in bars 64–65. The stop on the dominant before the full cadence can be reinterpreted as an early arrival on a half-cadence. Standing on this dominant (bars 65–67) suggests that the faked thematic return (bar 68) is the beginning of the recapitulation.

47 Sutcliffe, ‘Expressive Ambivalence’, 110.

48 Sutcliffe, ‘Expressive Ambivalence’, 111.

49 Sutcliffe, ‘Expressive Ambivalence’, 111, note 46. Even if Sisman does not directly refer to Hamlet's melancholy to support her hypothesis, she mentions this affect in connection with Heufeld's adaptation (‘Haydn's Theater Symphonies’, 324) in order to dismiss Landon's speculations about Haydn's music to Hamlet having been incorporated into ‘the fiery minor-key symphonies’ Nos 44 or 52 (326). See Landon, Haydn at Eszterháza, volume 2, 279. Hamlet describes himself as melancholic at the end of Act 2 (Riverside Shakespeare, ed. G. Blakemore Evans (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1974), Scene 2, line 588).

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53 Other flat minor keys associated with melancholy were G minor, F minor and E flat minor. On the sharp side, melancholy was sometimes related to E minor, B minor and F sharp minor. The only major key associated with this affect was A flat major (Steblin, A History of Key Characteristics, 242–244). The fundamental importance of key characteristics for the expression of melancholy is emphasized by Wald, Melanie, ‘Melancholie in Mozarts Instrumentalmusik: Biographische Legende oder ästhetische Praxis?’, Acta Mozartiana 54/1–2 (2007), 31–53Google Scholar, and the association of D minor with melancholy is acknowledged by Sisman, ‘Pathos and the Pathétique: Rhetorical Stance in Beethoven's C-minor Sonata, Op. 13’, Beethoven Forum 3 (1994), 99.

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58 For concise descriptions of the sarabande topic see Ratner, Classic Music, 11–12, and Allanbrook, Wye Jamison, Rhythmic Gesture in Mozart: ‘Le nozze di Figaro’ and ‘Don Giovanni’ (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983), 37–38Google Scholar.

59 Apart from textural and dynamic contrasts, such scenes feature slow tempo, ostinato, repeated notes, pedal points and bold harmonic progressions including diminished-seventh, Neapolitan and augmented-sixth chords. The most typical keys are C minor and D minor. See McClelland, Clive, Ombra: Supernatural Music in the Eighteenth Century (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2012)Google Scholar.

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61 Changes of mode from major to minor are related to melancholy by Herttrich (‘Studien zum Ausdruck des Melancholischen’, 36–43), but the tradition of ombra scenes suggests that the dramatic turns from D major to D minor in Haydn's slow movement can be interpreted as shifts of mood from calm to terror.

62 Quintilian, Institutio oratoria, book 9, section 3, paragraph 60, 28–29, quoted by Vickers, In Defence of Rhetoric, 317, 318.

63 George Puttenham, The Arte of English Poesie (1589), 166–167, quoted by Vickers, In Defence of Rhetoric, 333.

64 Vickers, In Defence of Rhetoric, 307.

65 Vickers, In Defence of Rhetoric, 336. Hamlet quotations from the Riverside Shakespeare.

66 Vickers, In Defence of Rhetoric, 335.

67 Sisman, ‘Haydn's Theater Symphonies’, 320.

68 Sisman, ‘Haydn's Theater Symphonies’, 312.

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72 Winkler, ‘Orchesterpantomime’, 106. My translation. Winkler compares the fictive persona of the composer to the narrator of a literary text and refers to the work of Booth, Wayne, Die Rhetorik der Erzählkunst, trans. Polzin, Alexander, two volumes (Heildelberg: Quelle und Meyer, 1974)Google Scholar. More recent literary theory draws a distinction between the ‘real author’ and the ‘implied author’ by analogy to the ‘real reader’ and the ‘implied reader’ (Cobley, Paul, Narrative (London: Routledge, 2001), 139Google Scholar). The concept of ‘implied reader’, proposed by Iser, Wolfgang (The Implied Reader: Patterns of Communication in Prose Fiction from Bunyan to Beckett (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974)Google Scholar), was adopted for music and turned into the ‘implicated listener’ by Wheelock, Haydn's Ingenious Jesting, 193–206.

73 Winkler, ‘Orchesterpantomime’, 103. My translation.

74 Diergarten, Felix, ‘“At times even Homer nods off”: Heinrich Christoph Koch's Polemic against Joseph Haydn’, Music Theory Online 14/1 (2008)Google Scholar, suggests that Symphony No. 60, ‘Il Distratto’, was the clandestine object of criticism directed against musical representation of an absent-minded person in the second volume of Koch's Versuch and uses this as part of his argument against the relevance of Koch's theory for Haydn's compositional practice. One can imagine that Koch's opinion about Symphony No. 64 would have been no less critical than about No. 60, but this does not undermine the explanatory power of his theory in relation to the enigmatic form of the slow movement. The relevance of eighteenth-century music theory for the analysis of eighteenth-century music requires more nuanced discussion. With this article I aim to contribute to it.

75 Sisman, ‘Haydn's Theater Symphonies’, 330.

76 Sisman, ‘Haydn's Theater Symphonies’, 331.

77 Theatrical gestures in Haydn's keyboard sonatas were elucidated by Wheelock, Haydn's Ingenious Jesting, 173–176, and Tom Beghin, ‘“Delivery, Delivery, Delivery!” Crowning the Rhetorical Process of Haydn's Keyboard Sonatas’, in Haydn and the Performance of Rhetoric, 131–171). The ensemble pantomime in the finale of the String Quartet Op. 33 No. 2, ‘The Joke’, is discussed by Wheelock, Haydn's Ingenious Jesting, 10–13, and Winkler, , ‘Opus 33/2: Zur Anatomie eines Schlußeffekts’, Haydn-Studien 4/4 (1994), 288–297Google Scholar. Other instances of pantomime in the string quartets Op. 50 No. 2/i, Op. 55 No. 1/i and Op. 55 No. 2/iv are elucidated in Mirka, Metric Manipulations, 254–274, 275–294, 214–217. See also my general discussion (298–301).

78 Another interpretation of the title was proposed by Tolley, Thomas, Painting the Cannon's Roar: Music, the Visual Arts and the Rise of an Attentive Public in the Age of Haydn, c. 1750 to c. 1810 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001), 88Google Scholar. This author associates the theme of changing times with political issues of the day, such as the Partition of Poland, in which Austria participated in 1772–1773.

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81 Sisman, ‘Haydn's Theater Symphonies’, 327.

82 Foster, ‘The Tempora Mutantur Symphony’, 328.

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85 Caspar Huberinus, Postilla Deudsch (Frankfurt, 1554), f. 354.

86 Johannes Nas, Das Antipapistisch eins vnd hundert ([Ingolstadt,] 1565), f. 83.

87 Delitiae Poetarum Germanorum huius superiorisque aevi illustrium, volume 1 (Frankfurt, 1612), 685. Foster's incorrect attribution of this couplet to its dedicatee, Emperor Lothar I, comes from Büchmann, Georg, Geflügelte Worte: Der Citatenschatz des deutschen Volkes (Berlin: Haude and Spener, 1898), 506Google Scholar.

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