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Mozart's Musical Autobiography

Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association, 1949
IN this paper I am not, primarily, concerned with facts. Some facts I shall state, other possible facts I shall guess at. My principal object is that of raising, and of suggesting an answer to, the question whether what we may call certain psychological possibilities exist.
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A Recurring Pattern in Mozart's "Music"

Journal of Music Theory, 1983
In classical sonata movements in the major mode the tonal motion of the development section is most often directed back to the dominant, which is then extended for several measures until the return to the tonic. However, in several Mozart works the goal of this motion is not the dominant, but the major triad on the mediant (III#); from there the return
David Beach, null Mozart
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Mozart, Bach, and Musical Abjection

The Musical Quarterly, 1999
This essay concerns the relationship of classical to baroque style. The point of departure is the epigraph above. Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus is the fictional biography of a modernist composer named Adrian Leverkiihn, a figure based to a considerable extent on Arnold Schoenberg.
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Subtle Enharmonic Relationships in Mozart's "Music"

Journal of Music Theory, 1986
Enharmonic transformation is one of the most important resources of the tonal system. This procedure occurs already in music of the late Baroque period, particularly in compositions by Bach, Handel, and D. Scarlatti. It is only in the Classical period, however, that the expressive and musical possibilities of enharmonic relationships are fully ...
Roger Kamien, null Mozart
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Mozart Effect: Music for Newborns

2018
Packaging and accompanying booklet from audiocassette recording of "Mozart Effect: Music for Newborns."
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MOZART'S INFLUENCE ON ENGLISH MUSIC

Music and Letters, 1961
BY the end of the eighteenth century the galant style of J. C. Bach, strengthened and enriched by Haydn, had become the everyday idiom for all instrumental music in England. The effect of Haydn's symphonies had been immense. Probably it was their orchestration which above all astonished an audience accustomed to the lightweight scoring of J. C.
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Mozart's Music of Friends

2016
In 1829 Goethe famously described the string quartet as 'a conversation among four intelligent people'. Inspired by this metaphor, Edward Klorman's study draws on a wide variety of documentary and iconographic sources to explore Mozart's chamber works as 'the music of friends'.
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Mozart's Chamber Music with Keyboard

2012
Internationally renowned scholars and performers present a wide range of new analytical, historical and critical perspectives on some of Mozart's most popular chamber music: his sonatas with violin, keyboard trios and quartets and the quintet with wind instruments.
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Mozart or not? The musical evidence

Cambridge Opera Journal, 2000
The orchestrally accompanied recitative which precedes the aria ‘Vado ma dove’ does contain gestures and harmonies found in Mozart’s accompagnati, yet it differs from his standard practices in a number of respects. Its lack of motivic development, persistent use of unison, and reiteration of chords and arpeggios in the same inversion all diverge from ...
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Salzburg Influences in Mozart's Church Music

Bulletin of the American Musicological Society, 1945
GREATER NEW YORK CHAPTER The Song-Book of John Gamble Charles Hughes (GNY) (JANUARY 23RD, 1942) NOTE: This paper is published in Music & LETTERS for October, 1945. Salzburg Influences in Mozart's Church Music Carl A. Rosenthal (GNY) (FEBRUARY 23RD, 1942) ITALIAN COxMPOSERS dominated the archiepiscopal court in Salzburg at the beginning of the 17th ...
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