Rhythmic gesture in Mozart : le Nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni / Wye Jamison Allanbrook.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Allanbrook, Wye Jamison, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791. Nozze di Figaro.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791. Don Giovanni.

Musique--Mesure et rythme.

Musique.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (409 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Illinois ; London, England : University of Chicago Press, [1983]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Wye Jamison Allanbrook’s widely influential Rhythmic Gesture in Mozart challenges the view that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s music was a “pure play” of key and theme, more abstract than that of his predecessors. Allanbrook’s innovative work shows that Mozart used a vocabulary of symbolic gestures and musical rhythms to reveal the nature of his characters and their interrelations. The dance rhythms and meters that pervade his operas conveyed very specific meanings to the audiences of the day.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of figures

Preface

Introduction. expression, imitation, and the musical topos

Part one. Mozart’s rhythmic topoi

Chapter one. The shaped of rhythms

Chapter two. The gestures of social dance

Part two. Le nozze Di Figaro

Chapter three. Act I

Chapter four. Act II

Chapter five. Act III

Chapter six. Act IV

Part three. Don Giovanni

Chapter seven. Overture and introduction

Chapter eight. The opening scene

Chapter nine. The noble lovers

Chapter ten. Donna Elvira

Chapter eleven. Zerlina and masetto

Chapter twelve. The two finales

Afterword

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780226437712

022643771X