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1 online resource (493 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface to the First Edition; Preface to the Second Edition; List of Abbreviations; List of Illustrations; Key to Music Sources, Editions, Documents, and Most Frequently Mentioned Treatises; Introduction; 1 Mozart's World of Sound; Keyboard Instruments of Mozart's Time; Mozart's Training on All Kinds of Keyboard Instruments; The Sound of Mozart's Own Fortepiano by Anton Walter; Knee Levers for Lifting the Dampers on Mozart's Pianos; Necessary Use of the Damper-Lifting Device or Pedal; Mozart's Fortepiano Pedal Instrument |
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The Range of Mozart's FortepianoA Word about Piano Mechanics; 2 Dynamics; Basic Dynamic Signs Customary during the Eighteenth Century; Dynamic Signs in Mozart's Piano Works; The Indications Sotto Voce and Dolce; Static and Dynamic Markings; Crescendo and Decrescendo; Mozart's Accent Signs; Supplementing Incomplete or Missing Dynamics; The Echo Syndrome; 3 Problems of Tempo and Rhythm; Tempo Problems; A List of the Most Important Tempo Markings; Alla breve Time; Playing "In Time"; Agogics; Rubato; Some Peculiarities of Rhythmic Notation; Tripletization; Hemiolas; 4 Articulation; Legato |
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Legato Slurs and Articulation SlursMixed Articulation; Portato; Staccato; Unmarked Passages; 5 Ornaments; Appoggiaturas; Arpeggios; Turns; Trills; Endings of Trills; The Half-Shake (Pralltriller); 6 Improvised Embellishments; The Old Rules for Placing Embellishments; Necessary Additions of Notes; Embellishment Models by Mozart; When Additions Are a Matter of Taste; When Additions Are Definitely Out of Style; 7 Cadenzas and Lead-Ins (Eingänge); Are Cadenzas Improvisations or Premeditated Compositions?; Structural Differences between Cadenzas and Free Improvisations |
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Composing Cadenzas for Mozart's ConcertosLead-ins and Other Fermata Embellishments; Proper Places for Fermata Embellishments; Where Fermata Embellishments Are Questionable and Where No Lead-ins Should Be Played; The Various Meanings of Fermata Signs; 8 "Expression and Gusto"; Expression with the Help of Dynamic Shadings; Expression with the Help of Articulation; Expressive Rhythmic Shadings; Harmonic Expression; Proper Accompaniment Helps Expression; Expression of Comic or Tragic Moods; Keep Smiling!; Are Repeats Compulsory?; 9 In Search of the Best Text; The Neue Mozart Ausgabe (NMA) |
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Other Recommendable EditionsText Problems in Piano Sonatas; Text Problems in Piano Concertos; What Comes after the Neue Mozart Ausgabe?; A Recent New Edition of the Piano Concerto in E-flat Major, K. 271 (Breitkopf & Härtel N° 5300); About Page Turning; 10 Playing with Orchestra; How Pianists Should Study Piano Concertos; Orchestra Sizes and Ripieno Parts; Continuo Playing; Playing the Final Chords of a Concerto Movement Together with the Orchestra; 11 Some Technical Questions in the Piano Works; Finger Action; Scales and Arpeggios; Trills; Octaves |
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Technical Problems of the Use of the Damper-Lifting Pedal (Knee Lever) |
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Print version record |
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Piano music -- Interpretation (Phrasing, dynamics, etc.)
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Performance practice (Music) -- History -- 18th century.
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MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Classical.
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MUSIC -- Musical Instruments -- Piano & Keyboard.
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MUSIC -- Printed Music -- Percussion.
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Performance practice (Music)
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Piano music -- Interpretation (Phrasing, dynamics, etc.)
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History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Badura-Skoda, Paul
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| ISBN |
9781135868512 |
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1135868514 |
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