1. Acknowledgement footnote missing here.
2. “Vom Krieg” (1827); Carl von Clausewitz need German citation?
3. In order to “move things along”, we employ a number of abbreviations throughout the text . For quick reference, we provide a table of these abbreviations.
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4. The choice of this edition is a personal PZ decision. In the event of discrepancies between the data presented, and some other edition, please consult the Robbins Landon. As detailed by RL, he excludes certain data-points from his SQ edition, and we follow that exclusion. As an aside, we point out that the excluded works also do not appear in the Landon edition of Symphonies. That is doubly discriminatory, but that is not our problem. The missing data points will not materially impact our overall “conclusions”, such as they are. We also remark that the op. 3 quartets are now considered spurious. Here to, the overall picture will not change were we to eliminate these data. We will also not enter in to a discussion as to if the first batches of quartets up thru op. 33 are divertimenti, or quartets.
5. Note the following convention: M = the minuet section of the entire movement i.e. usually “A” + “B”. T = the trio section of the entire movement i.e. usually ”C"” + “D”. . dC = the da Capo section of the entire movement. When referring to the entire movement (i.e. M + T + dC) we spell the word i.e. minuet.
6. Without meaning to detract from H's imagination, and/or Cage-ian penchant for syntactic experiment, the above bar-counts, while somewhat extreme in their variety, are not without precedence. For example, Tilden A. Russell, in both “The Unconventional Dance Minuet: Choreographies of the Menuet d'Exaudet”. Acta Musicologica Vol. 64, Fasc. 2 (Jul. - Dec. 1992), pp. 118-132., and “Minuet Form and Phraseology in Recueils and Manuscript Tunebooks”. The Journal of Musicology, Vol. 17, No. 3 (Summer 1999), pp. 386-419, has shown that, while Haydn may be a bit over-the-top in terms of variety, the “standard” four-square Minuet construct promulgated by some theorists is HARDLY the norm we have been hornswoggled into believing.