Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

M ozart ' s O bviously C orrupt M inuet

M ozart ' s O bviously C orrupt M inuet ABSTRACT The Romantic and Modern reception and reinterpretation of eighteenth‐century music stretches over a period much longer than that of the eighteenth century itself, in the process forming its own authenticity and norms. Modern editors of eighteenth‐century music must occasionally grapple with musical texts which appear to violate either the earlier or later standards. A minuet whose text seemed ‘obviously corrupt’ to the official editors of Mozart's keyboard sonatas would probably have seemed highly artful yet utterly normative to Mozart or his audiences. A focus on the norms of musical phrases was proposed by the Victorian author Violet Paget, writing under the pseudonym Vernon Lee. Her immersion in eighteenth‐century music at an early age, along with her training in the Italian tradition, gave her a unique position from which to comment on the differences between the musical culture of her own time and that of Mozart and his Italian models. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Music Analysis Wiley

M ozart ' s O bviously C orrupt M inuet

GJERDINGEN, ROBERT O.
Music Analysis , Volume 29 (1‐3) – Mar 1, 2010
Download PDF
22 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/wiley/m-ozart-s-o-bviously-c-orrupt-m-inuet-o0pTbMrs0a

References (11)

Publisher
Wiley
Copyright
© 2011 The Author. Music Analysis © 2011 Blackwell Publishing Ltd
ISSN
0262-5245
eISSN
1468-2249
DOI
10.1111/j.1468-2249.2011.00326.x
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

ABSTRACT The Romantic and Modern reception and reinterpretation of eighteenth‐century music stretches over a period much longer than that of the eighteenth century itself, in the process forming its own authenticity and norms. Modern editors of eighteenth‐century music must occasionally grapple with musical texts which appear to violate either the earlier or later standards. A minuet whose text seemed ‘obviously corrupt’ to the official editors of Mozart's keyboard sonatas would probably have seemed highly artful yet utterly normative to Mozart or his audiences. A focus on the norms of musical phrases was proposed by the Victorian author Violet Paget, writing under the pseudonym Vernon Lee. Her immersion in eighteenth‐century music at an early age, along with her training in the Italian tradition, gave her a unique position from which to comment on the differences between the musical culture of her own time and that of Mozart and his Italian models.

Journal

Music Analysis – Wiley

Published: Mar 1, 2010

There are no references for this article.