Perspectives on Mozart performance / edited by R. Larry Todd and Peter Williams.

Other author Todd, R. Larry, editor.
Other author Williams, Peter, 1937 May 14-2016 editor.
Format Book
EditionDigitally printed 1st paperback version.
Publication InfoCambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Description246 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Subjects

SeriesCambridge studies in performance practice
Cambridge studies in performance practice. ^A281150
Contents Mozart's trills / Paul Badura-Skoda -- 'Ich praeludirte und spielte Variazionen': Mozart the fortepianist / Katalin Komlos -- Mozart's tempo indications and the problems of interpretation / Jean-Piere Marty -- On the problem of cadenzas in Mozart's violin concertos / Eduard Melkus -- A new look at Mozart's prosodic appoggiatura / Frederic Neumann -- A performer's thoughts on Mozart's violin style / Jaap Schroder -- Leopold Mozart revised: articulation in violin playing during the second half of the eighteenth century / Robin Stowell -- Mozart according to Mendelssohn: a contribution to Rezeptionsgeschichte / R. Larry Todd -- Some thoughts on Mozart's use of the chromatic fourth / Peter Williams -- Cadenzas and styles of improvisation in Mozart's piano concertos / Christoph Wolff.
Abstract Perspectives on Mozart Performance, published during the Mozart bicentennial year, is the first volume in a new series. It includes essays by distinguished musicologists and performers, each exploring a different aspect of Mozart's music in performance. Several studies consider the eighteenth-century roots of Mozart's approach to performance and examine such issues as the role of ornamentation (Paul Badura-Skoda, Frederick Neumann), improvisation (Katalin Komlós), cadenzas (Christoph Wolff), and Mozart's conception of tempos in a pre-metronomic age (Jean-Pierre Marty). Two studies examine Mozart's string writing (Jaap Schroeder) and the influence of his father's remarkably popular Violinschule (Robin Stowell). An essay by Peter Williams treats Mozart's use of the chromatic fourth and performance styles associated with that figura. Finally, the later, nineteenth-century response to Mozart is explored through the study of Mendelssohn's performances of Mozart (R. Larry Todd).
General noteHardback edition published in 1991.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
LCCN 2006278513
ISBN0521024064 (pbk.)
ISBN0521400724 (hardback)
ISBN9780521024068
ISBN9780521400725