List of Musical Examples  ix
Preface  xi
Acknowledgments  xvii
About the Companion Website  xxi
Part I. Approached the Absolute
1. Idealizing Music  3
Part II. Haydn's Difference
2. Entertaining Possibilities in Haydn's Symphonies  53
3. Haydn, the String Quartet, and the (D)evolution of the Chamber Ideal  101
Part III. New World Dualities
4. Popular Music contra German Idealism: Anglo-American Rebellions from Minstrelsy to Camp  137
5. "Popular Music" qua German Idealism: Authenticity and Its Outliers   221
6. Musical Virtues and Vices in the Latter-Day New World  253
Appendix A. More Extended Musical Examples  279
Appendix B. Listing of Video Examples from Films  293
Notes  295
Bibliography  343
Index  367

“As a writer and thinker, Raymond Knapp is a congenial musicologist—eschewing the obscurities of hard theoretical labor and preferring colorful insights. Highly recommended.” — M. Dineen, Choice

"I recommend Making Light strongly; it is provocative, stimulating and overflowing in original and insightful argument. [Knapp] moves the study of Haydn in a new direction, while developing new ways of understanding how idealistic perspectives on music have shaped the values attached to different forms of music-making." — Derek B. Scott, Popular Music

“As a writer and thinker, Raymond Knapp is a congenial musicologist—eschewing the obscurities of hard theoretical labor and preferring colorful insights. Highly recommended.” —M. Dineen, Choice

"I recommend Making Light strongly; it is provocative, stimulating and overflowing in original and insightful argument. [Knapp] moves the study of Haydn in a new direction, while developing new ways of understanding how idealistic perspectives on music have shaped the values attached to different forms of music-making." —Derek B. Scott, Popular Music

"Making Light is a truly provocative book that offers an astounding assessment of Joseph Haydn's legacy in American musical culture. In a sweeping tour de force, Raymond Knapp draws tantalizing parallels between the composer's enigmatic eccentricity and the critical aspirations of high camp. Rich in analytical and historical detail, this timely study argues that Haydn's humane humor prefigured the rebellious impulses that punctured the prevailing aesthetic pretensions of musical idealism by advocating an Aristotelian sense of human flourishing." — Berthold Hoeckner, author of, Programming the Absolute: Nineteenth-Century German Music and the Hermeneutics of the Moment

“In this extraordinary book Raymond Knapp touches on just about every repertory in play in musicology, bringing an increasingly disparate and splintered field into a single conversation firmly focused on what really counts in the study of musical life in American society. Knapp's breathtaking scholarship and cutting-edge arguments are sure to create conversation; he makes you want to talk about his book. Making Light is a stimulating and bracing read.” — Todd Decker, author of, Who Should Sing "Ol' Man River"? The Lives of an American Song

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