From Nate

From: Nate Meneer [mailto:nmeneer@bu.edu]
Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2009 5:31 PM
To: Bellott, Sarah D; 'David Kjar'
Subject: Revision

To correct my earlier statement, Landon conceptualizes 1766-1775 as a “period.” Nevertheless, Landon seems to think 1766 to be a significant watershed in Haydn’s bio.

~N

From: Nate Meneer [mailto:nmeneer@bu.edu]
Sent: October-10-09 5:27 PM
To: 'Bellott, Sarah D'; 'David Kjar'
Subject: RE: Haydn

Thanks so much for passing this along. I will read through it tonight!

As we have witnessed in class, the dating of Haydn’s works is extremely difficult and controversial. For many of Haydn’s symphonies, Grove gives at least two possible dates. To help limit things, and ensure the integrity of our sample, I am omitting symphonies that have “possible” dates outside out chosen period (per Grove).

Lastly, what would you guys things of further refining our dates from 1766-1770. I suggest this for two reasons:

a) Landon seems to conceptualize these dates as a “period”
b) If we included 1765 in our sample, the number of symphonies I need to look at jumps from 5 to 11

Thoughts?

Nate