Interpreting Mozart on the keyboard / Eva and Paul Badura-Skoda ; translated by Leo Black.

Author/creator Badura-Skoda, Eva
Other author Badura-Skoda, Paul, author.
Other author Black, Leo, translator.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : St Martin's Press, [1962]
Descriptionix, 319 pages : illustrations, portraits, plates, music, facsimiles ; 26 cm
Subjects

Uniform titleMozart-Interpretation. English
Contents Mozart's sound -- Problems of tempo and rhythm. Tempo ; 'Playing in time' ; Agogics and rubato ; Some peculiarities of notation -- Articulation -- Ornamentation. Appoggiaturas. Single appoggiaturas ; Vocal appoggiaturas ; Compound appoggiaturas -- Arpeggios -- Turns. The turn immediately over a note ; The turn between two notes ; The turn after a dotted note -- Trills. Beginnings of trills ; Endings of trills ; The half-shake (pralltriller) -- The Urtext problem -- Some technical questions in the piano works -- 'Taste' and 'Feeling' -- Improvised embellishments -- Continuo playing -- The problem of accompaniment -- Cadenzas and lead-ins. Openings of cadenzas ; Middle sections of cadenzas ; Final sections of cadenzas ; Lead-ins -- Remarks on some of the piano concertos.
Abstract A scholarly study of changes in music & instruments since Mozart's time; some of his thoughts on expressiveness, and the application of them to playing his music; but mostly discussion of interpretations & ornamentations of his music, intended to allow the modern performer to more closely match Mozart's intent.
General noteTranslation of Mozart-Interpretation.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 310-313).
LCCN 62052215

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