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Mozart, the "Jupiter" symphony : no. 41 in C major, K. 551 / Elaine R. Sisman.

Title
Mozart, the "Jupiter" symphony : no. 41 in C major, K. 551 / Elaine R. Sisman.
Author
Sisman, Elaine Rochelle.
Publication
Cambridge [England] : New York : Cambridge University Press, 1993.

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Description
xii, 110 p. : music; 23 cm.
Summary
This guide to Mozart's last and most celebrated symphony explores the historical background and aesthetic contexts of the work as well as the music itself. The early chapters examine the expectations of the symphony in Mozart's Vienna, Mozart's career in 1788 (the year of the three last symphonies), and the changing reception of the "Jupiter" over the subsequent two hundred years. A separate chapter is devoted to each movement of the symphony with musical discussion illuminated by a broad array of topics.
Series Statement
Cambridge music handbooks
Uniform Title
Cambridge music handbooks.
Subject
  • Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791
  • Composers > Austria > Biography
  • Symphonies > Analysis, appreciation
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The symphony in Mozart's Vienna -- Grand style and sublime in eighteenth-century aesthetics -- The composition and reception of the "Jupiter" symphony -- Design: four movement-plans -- Gesture and expectation: allegro vivace -- Structure and expression: andante cantabile -- Phrase rhythm: menuetto, allegretto -- The rhetoric of the learned style: finale, molto allegro.
ISBN
  • 0521400694
  • 0521409241 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^^92039074^
OCLC
  • 26932362
  • SCSB-10290337
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library