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Ornamentation and Improvisation in Mozart

Ornamentation and Improvisation in Mozart

Neumann, Frederick

Hardcover

Series: Princeton Legacy Library, Book 5293

General DramaGeneral MusicMusic Reference

ISBN10: 0691656843
ISBN13: 9780691656847
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Published: Jan 15 2019
Pages: 320
Weight: 2.25
Height: 0.75 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English

This book is a sequel to Frederick Neumann's Ornamentation in Baroque and Post-Baroque Music, With Special Emphasis on J.S. Bach (Princeton, 1978). In the present volume, the first work on this subject for Mozart's music, the author continues his important contributions to the search for historically correct performance practices, and to the liberation of the performer from improperly conceived and overly restrictive interpretation of musical scores. The first part of this book attempts to free ornamentation in Mozart from rigorism that has resulted from confusing the pure abstraction of ornament tables with concrete musical situations. The second part deals with pitches that were not written in the score yet often intended to be added when Mozart left white spots in his notation. These additions range from single notes to lengthy cadenzas. The problem addressed is the question of where such additions are possible or necessary and how they might best be designed.

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