Mozart's piano concertos : text, context, interpretation / edited by Neal Zaslaw.

Other author Zaslaw, Neal, 1939- editor.
Format Book
Publication InfoAnn Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©1996.
Descriptionxii, 479 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Subjects
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791. Concertos, piano, orchestra.
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791--Congresses.
Concertos (Piano)--Congresses.

Contents Growing up with Mozart: a personal reminiscence / Richard Crawford -- Contexts for Mozart's piano concertos / Neal Zaslaw -- The many faces of authenticity: problems of a critical edition of Mozart's piano concertos / Christoph Wolff -- The devil's in the details: neglected aspects of Mozart's piano concertos / Robert D. Levin -- Recent discoveries in Viennese copies of Mozart's concertos / Dexter Edge -- Mozart's piano concerto fragments / Alan Tyson -- Comic issues in Mozart's piano concertos / Wye Jamison Allanbrook -- Are Mozart's concertos "dramatic"? Concerto ritornellos versus Aria introductions in the 1780s / James Webster -- Contexts and experience: problems and issues / Janet M. Levy -- Staging the Virtuoso: Ritornello procedure in Mozart, from Aria to Concerto / Martha Feldman -- Some thoughts on the design of Mozart's Opus 4, the "Subscription Concertos" (K. 414, 413, and 415) / Ellwood Derr -- The importance of C.P.E. Bach for Mozart's piano concertos / Jane R. Stevens -- The first-movement punctuation form in Mozart's piano concertos / Karol Berger -- "Unexpectedness" and "inevitability" in Mozart's piano concertos / David Rosen -- Dramatic development and narrative design in the first movement of Mozart's Concerto in C Minor, K. 491 / William Kinderman -- Mozart's art of variation: remarks on the first movement of K. 503 / V. Kofi Agawu -- Idiosyncratic features of three Mozart slow movements: the piano concertos K. 449, K. 453, and K. 467 / Carl Schachter -- Form, character, and genre in Mozart's piano concerto variations / Elaine Sisman -- On improvised embellishments and cadenzas in Mozart's piano concertos / Eva Badura-Skoda -- Whose authenticity? Ornaments by Hummel and Cramer for Mozart's piano concertos / David Grayson -- Basso Continuo in Mozart's piano concertos: dimensions of compositional completion and performance practice / Ellwood Derr -- The scoring of the orchestral bass part in Mozart's Salzburg keyboard concertos: the evidence of the authentic copies / Cliff Eisen -- Manuscript parts as evidence of orchestral size in the eighteenth-century Viennese concerto / Dexter Edge.
Abstract Mozart's Piano Concertos is a collaboration by twenty of today's prominent musical thinkers. Generously illustrated with facsimiles, tables, and more than one hundred musical examples, it substantially advances our understanding of Mozart's wonderful works. Its exceptional scope - addressing everything from textual problems (what notes should be played?) to questions of form (the striking identification of the concerto's first movement with the aria) to performance practice (how can we make the music sound more nearly as Mozart heard it?) - will make it invaluable to anyone who loves Mozart's piano concertos.
General noteThis collection of essays originated at the Michigan MozartFest at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, November 16-19, 1989).
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
LCCN 96004416
ISBN0472103148 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
ISBN9780472103140 (hardcover : acid-free paper)

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Music Music Stacks ML410.M9 M875 1996 ✔ Available Place Hold