Table of Contents

Introduction
Part I Haydn and Enlightened Though
1: Haydn and Shaftesbury: Music and Morality
2: Pre-English Literary Influences
3: The Lodge `Zur wahren Eintracht'
4: Opera, Rhetoric, and Rittergedichte
5: String Quartets, Op. 33: `A New and Special Way'
6: Theory versus Practice: Aesthetics and Instrumental Music
7: Symphonies Ascent: Pre-Paris to the Loge Olympique
Part II Audience Receptionand England
8: The Composer-Audience Relationship
9: Haydn and the English Audience
Part III The Symphonies
10: Symphonic Intelligibility and Sonata Form
11: Melodic Sources and Musical Images
12: Symphonies and the Salomon Concerts
Conclusions
Bibliography
Index