Improvised Ornamentation in the Opera Arias of Mozart
Author : Kathleen M. Carlton
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Page : 266 pages
File Size : 39,87 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Music
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Author : Kathleen M. Carlton
Publisher :
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 39,87 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Music
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Author : Frederick Neumann
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 15,53 MB
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 0691656843
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. Professor Neumann draws on an immense knowledge of the literature written during Mozart's time and on his own comprehension of the subtleties of Mozart's music and musical styles. Refusing to interpret the sources dogmatically, he frees performers of Mozart from the rigid princples too often imposed by modern scholars. Frederick Neumann is Professor of Music Emeritus at the University of Richmond. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Alexa Jackson Schlimmer
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Page : 356 pages
File Size : 15,95 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Embellishment (Vocal music)
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Author : Amy Kaiser
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Page : pages
File Size : 49,93 MB
Release : 1969
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Author : Frederick Neumann
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Page : 319 pages
File Size : 29,76 MB
Release : 1989-10-21
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ISBN : 9780691027111
The book description for the previously published "Ornamentation and Improvisation in Mozart" is not yet available.
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Page : pages
File Size : 46,12 MB
Release : 2003
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Coloratura arias for soprano were popular with Viennese opera audiences in the late eighteenth century. Prima donnas of the Singspiel and opera buffa companies expected composers to write arias that would display their technical skills, even requesting substitute arias to replace less virtuosic ones in revivals of older operas. However, in using coloratura in the comic opera genres, Mozart was not only creating an opportunity for virtuoso display of the singer's talent, but was also using this vocal style as a dramatic and rhetorical device, one that defined a character's social level. depicted her emotions, and advanced her dramatic situation. This thesis investigates how coloratura functions in Mozart's soprano comic roles by examining the arias of three characters from two different operas: Konstanze and Blonde in the Singspiel Die Enifiihrung aus dem Serail, and Susanna in the opera buffa Le nozze di Figaro. An analysis of these arias shows evidence of Mozart's skill in using coloratura while meeting the conflicting demands of diva and drama.
Author : Joanne Williamson Dorenfeld
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Page : 130 pages
File Size : 45,1 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Embellishment (Vocal music)
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Author : Charles Rosen
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 49,98 MB
Release : 1998-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393317121
Presents a detailed analysis of the musical styles and forms developed by Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven.
Author : Frederick Neumann
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 41,77 MB
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 0691213348
Ornaments play an enormous role in the music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and ambiguities in their notation (as well as their frequent omission in the score) have left doubt as to how composers intended them to be interpreted. Frederick Neumann, himself a violinist and conductor, questions the validity of the rigid principles applied to their performance. In this controversial work, available for the first time in paperback, he argues that strict constraints are inconsistent with the freedom enjoyed by musicians of the period. The author takes an entirely new look at ornamentation, and particularly that of J. S. Bach. He draws on extensive research in England, France, Germany, Italy, and the United States to show that prevailing interpretations are based on inadequate evidence. These restrictive interpretations have been far-reaching in their effect on style. By questioning them, this work continues to stimulate a reorientation in our understandiing of Baroque and post-Baroque music.
Author : Kristina Lynn Baron
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Page : 126 pages
File Size : 48,70 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Sopranos (Singers)
ISBN : 9780494283134
Coloratura arias for soprano were popular with Viennese opera audiences in the late eighteenth century. Prima donnas of the Singspiel and opera buffa companies expected composers to write arias that would display their technical skills, even requesting substitute arias to replace less virtuosic ones in revivals of older operas. However, in using coloratura in the comic opera genres, Mozart was not only creating an opportunity for virtuoso display of the singer's talent, but was also using this vocal style as a dramatic and rhetorical device, one that defined a character's social level, depicted her emotions, and advanced her dramatic situation. This thesis investigates how coloratura functions in Mozart's soprano comic roles by examining the arias of three characters from two different operas: Konstanze and Blonde in the Singspiel Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail, and Susanna in the opera buffa Le nozze di Figaro. An analysis of these arias shows evidence of Mozart's skill in using coloratura while meeting the conflicting demands of diva and drama.