Understanding Mozart's Piano SonatasThis study of analysis, performance and reception of Mozart's piano sonatas is written from the perspective of a musicologist who is also a perfomer, and for whom analysis is always contextualized by reception issues rather than itself being the context. |
Contents
Pretexts | 1 |
Reading Texts | 19 |
Contexts | 21 |
Horizons of Understanding | 29 |
Editions | 53 |
Approaching the Texts | 75 |
Playing Texts | 103 |
Instruments | 105 |
Embellishing Mozarts Texts | 117 |
Epilogue Listening to Texts | 139 |
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Allegro Allegro con spirito alternating analytical Andante Andreas Staier approach arpeggio Artaria articulation autograph beat Beethoven beginning C. P. E. Bach cadence cadential cantabile chord chromatic composer composition conception context contrasting counterpoint creative crescendo crotchet demisemiquavers development section dissonance dynamic edition embellishments end of bar exposition expressive finale fingering flat forte fortepiano gesture half-bar harmonic historical historically informed performances improvised instance instrument interpretation interpretive community Johann Andreas Stein keyboard left hand legato listener major Sonata marks material meaning melodic movement Mozart's music Mozart's notation Mozart's piano sonatas Mozart's sonatas Mozart's texts narrative notated text octave opening theme original particular passage pattern performance perhaps phrase player playing Potter's precise quaver quaver pairs recapitulation Reicha's relation repeat of bar represented rhythmic right-hand Ronald Brautigam semiquaver sequential slurring sonata form staccato Stein structure suggests tempo texture thematic Tom Beghin tonal tonic two-bar upbeat virtuosity W. A. Mozart Walter