id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt ng451g08g6d Emerson Eads Joseph Haydn's Stabat Mater: A Question of Empathy 1904 .txt text/plain 195 5 43 This study examines the history of lament or Planctus Mariae, from which the poem of the Stabat Mater sprang, briefly studies some of the musical antecedents to the 1767 setting, and illuminates the various musical gestures, forms, and tonal architecture, within the context of Haydn's Stabat Mater. When contextualized this way, Haydn's Stabat Mater emerges in a completely new light, and the question of empathy can be understood, not just by the text and the history of the tradition of lament, but by becoming fully immersed in rhetorical resources of the music. cache/ng451g08g6d.txt txt/ng451g08g6d.txt