Seriously, I count Boyce's symphonies because they're three-part Italian overtures, the form from which the symphony evolved in the period Boyce was writing. I'd count Webern's if I had it, because it's for orchestra, if a small one, and I do not wish to get into Simpsonian distinctions about what is "really" symphonic. Stravinsky's work is not called a symphony (symphonies in this context is a different word with a different meaning); what about the Symphony of Psalms? Lalo is a tougher case: concertos called symphonies were actually common in the 19th century, but this is the only one that's still remembered.
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Date: 2008-03-29 05:06 pm (UTC)Seriously, I count Boyce's symphonies because they're three-part Italian overtures, the form from which the symphony evolved in the period Boyce was writing. I'd count Webern's if I had it, because it's for orchestra, if a small one, and I do not wish to get into Simpsonian distinctions about what is "really" symphonic. Stravinsky's work is not called a symphony (symphonies in this context is a different word with a different meaning); what about the Symphony of Psalms? Lalo is a tougher case: concertos called symphonies were actually common in the 19th century, but this is the only one that's still remembered.