دانلود کتاب Interpreting Mozart: The Performance of His Piano Pieces and Other Compositions

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Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
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
The Range of Mozart’s Fortepiano
A 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
Legato Slurs and Articulation Slurs
Mixed 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
Composing Cadenzas for Mozart’s Concertos
Lead-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)
Other Recommendable Editions
Text 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
Technical Problems of the Use of the Damper-Lifting Pedal (Knee Lever)
12 Remarks on the Interpretation of Selected Piano Works
Concerto in D Minor, K. 466
Concerto in A Major, K. 488
Concerto in C Minor, K. 491
Piano Sonata in A Minor, K. 310
Sonata in A Major, K. 331
Appendix 1: Mozart’s Reported Tempo for Pamina’s G-minor Aria
Appendix 2: A List of the Best Presently Available Editions of Mozart’s Piano Music
Appendix 3: An Example for basso continuo Realisation (K. 449/I)
Selected Bibliography
Subject Index
Index of Works Cited