Making Light Haydn, Musical Camp, and the Long Shadow of German Idealism

"Making Light will surely spark many fruitful and interesting discussions, and lead to ever clearer and more meaningful ways of looking at performance." - Michael E. Ruhling (Haydn) "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) "A rich and timely study. . . . Readers interested in fresh approaches to Haydn's catalogue or camp in American musical culture will find Making Light an intriguing study of marginalized musical features across canonic boundaries."
- Jon Churchill (Current Musicology)