music APPRECIATION - week 10
(EBOOK: Chapter 32)
lecturenotes_i_and_studyguide.pdf | |
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musical_forms.pdf | |
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sonata-allegro_chart.pdf | |
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Not a great achievement by Mozart musically -- the symphony has only three movements, and the formal structure of the first movement does not follow a traditional first movement construction -- but it is not a bad symphony for an eight old boy!!!!! | ||
A Hollywood movie, but it does capture the unbelievable natural talent of Mozart. The competition between Salieri and Mozart is greatly exaggerated in this film, but it is still very entertaining. | ||
Another great scene from the movie "Amadeus". Many of Mozart's manuscripts were in fact often written a single stroke of genius -- almost like a "stream of consciousness". | ||
Mozart, Minuet, K. 355, in D Major (1780). A rather controversial piece -- apparently not everything Mozart wrote was "flawless". Here is a reference to thoughts by my former professor, Ernst Oster: In 1966 Ernst Oster also cast aside Einstein's idea of the Menuet being part of K576, believing it "highly unlikely" Mozart would have included a short Menuet without a Trio in a Sonata of the length of K576. In fact Oster did not believe anything in the work pointed to a late period in Mozart's work. He wrote the work's chromaticism, its sudden dissonances and certain contrapuntal devices appear in some of his much earlier works. The strange diversity of texture seems to deny the possibility it was written this late. He agreed with Walther Siegmund-Schultze's 1957 article [which I have not read] that the piece was written earlier than 1790. Both Siegmund-Schultze and Oster believed K355 was a "Menuet study", or an "experiment". This would account for some "compositional weaknesses not usually to be found in Mozart". Oster even doubted if the last 12 measures of the main part were by Mozart, but completed by Stadler for publication. All in all he thought the piece "somewhat labored". Oster felt the Menuet was written around 1782, and associated with the other experiments of that period. Another famous annecdote about this piece: Of interest is also an anecdote of a conversation that appeared in England in 1815 of a person who knew Mozart. In this story a Viennese gentleman showed W.T. Parke the copy of a Menuet and Trio composed by Mozart. According to this story Mozart was accosted in the streets of Vienna by a beggar, who made it appear he was related to Mozart. As Mozart had no money he took the beggar to a coffee house and drawing some lines on a sheet of paper composed this Menuet and Trio. He told the beggar to take the composition to his publisher, where he got 5 guineas for it. The piece printed with this anecdote is K355.
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Antonio Salieri(1750 - 1825), Concerto for Piano in C Major (1773). Though not as beautiful as Mozart's music, Salieri was a well-known and talented composer of the Classical period, unfortunately "overshadowed" by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert.
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Mozart's Piano Concerto #21 in C major, 1st MMT. Compare to the Salieri concerto above.
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Mozart, Dies Irae, from Requiem (1791). Mozart's last work (a "mass for the dead"); some of the last movements were only sketched and actually fully orchestrated by his student F. Sussmayr (this particular movement was completed by Mozart, however). Note the advanced drama and hints of expressionism, text painting, increased chromaticism and greater dissonance, etc., preparing the way for the Romantic period which soon followed in the 1800's. Traditional parts of a Requiem Mass, similar to a traditional Mass (except for the notable elimination of the Gloria and Credo); each section of the ordinary may have other pieces (the proper) inserted between them.
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MOZART'S OPERA "THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO" (1786) Mozart composed 22 operas, four of which are in the Italian buffa style. The following video clip contains Mozart's complete opera. Sung in Italian, this video includes subtitles in English (for a detailed summary of the libretto, be sure to explore the link to the PDF file above). |
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THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO
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MOZART'S OPERA "DON GIOVANNI" (1787) The following video clip contains the complete opera - considered to have both elements of seria and buffa styles. Sung in Italian, this video includes subtitles in English (for a detailed summary of the libretto, be sure to explore the link to the PDF file above). |
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DON GIOVANNI opera link | OVERTURE 0:00 - 7:35 ACT 1, SCENE 1 (garden outside of the commendentore's estate)
SCENE 2 (Public Square)
SCENE 3 (Country)
ACT 1, SCENE 5 (conclusion, Don Giovanni's Ballroom)
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