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Mozart's Piano Sonatas

Contexts, Sources, Style

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Mozart's piano sonatas form a richly diverse and significant part of his instrumental output and span much of his mature composing career, thereby representing a microcosm of the composer's changing style. Part I examines the contexts in which the sonatas were composed and performed, and reviews likely sources of influence. Part II concentrates on the genesis of the sonatas and the sources, which reveals important information about Mozart's compositional process. In Part III the musical style is studied from the standpoint of rhetoric--a discipline featured in numerous contemporary aesthetic and theoretical textbooks on music.

'Irving's book functions in part as a ready reference guide. As well as a rundown on the sources for each sonata, particularly noteworthy for its attention to the evidence provided by ink shadings for Mozart's manner of compsoing, there is some interesting prefatory material that considers possible stylistic models for the Mozart sonatas.' W. Dean Sutcliffe, Times Literary Supplement

Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Contexts
The solo sonata in context
Stylistic models for Mozart's sonatas
Sources
Six sonatas, K.279 84
Three sonatas, K.309 11
Four sonatas, K.330 2, K.333
Fantasia and Sonata in C minor, K.475 and 457
Later Viennese sonatas: K.533 and 494, K.545, K.570, K.576
Fragments
Style
Eighteenth-century views of sonata form
Pre-compositional choices - the rhetorical inventio
Dispositio: rhetoric and design
The rhetorical elocutio
Notes, Select bibliography
Index
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ISBN: 9780521027410
ISBN-10: 0521027411
Audience: Professional
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 240
Published: 2nd November 2006
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Dimensions (cm): 22.8 x 15.2  x 1.4
Weight (kg): 0.36