Making light : Haydn, musical camp, and the long shadow of German idealism

Approaching the absolute.
Idealizing music.
Haydn's difference.
Entertaining possibilities in Haydn's symphonies.
Haydn, the string quartet, and the (d)evolution of the chamber ideal.
New world dualities.
Popular music contra German idealism: Anglo-American rebellions from minstrelsy to camp.
"Popular music" qua German idealism: authenticity and its outliers.
Musical virtues and vices in the latter-day new world.
Appendix a: More extended musical examples.
Appendix b: Listing of video examples from films.