Perspectives on Mozart Performance (Cambridge Studies in Performance Practice, Series Number 1)

ISBN 10: 0521400724 / ISBN 13: 9780521400725

Published by Cambridge University Press August 1991, 1991

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First Edition from Cambridge University Press in near fine condition. Pages are clean and bright. Spine is straight and tight. Dust jacket is in mylar. Overall a really nice, clean edition for your collection!

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Perspectives on Mozart Performance (Cambridge Studies in Performance Practice, Series Number 1)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press August 1991
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521400724
• ISBN 13: 9780521400725
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Printing: First Edition
• Condition: Used
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
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Synopsis

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), improvization (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).

Book Description

Perspectives on Mozart Performance, published during the Mozart bicentennial year, brings together distinguished musicologists and performers to examine several aspects of Mozart in performance. Among the range of topics dicussed are the role of ornamentation, improvisation, cadenzas, Mozart's conception of tempo, Mozart's writing for strings and his use of the chromatic fourth, and, finally, Mendelssohn as a nineteenth-century interpreter of Mozart.