Perspectives on Mozart Performance |
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| Editor:
| Todd, R. Larry
Williams, Peter |
| Series title: | Cambridge Studies in Performance Practice Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-521-02406-8 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2006 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $62.99 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.