Mozart's Piano Sonatas: Contexts, Sources, Style (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521027410)

Mozart's piano sonatas form a richly diverse and significant part of his instrumental output and span much of his mature composing career, thereby representing a microcosm of the composer's changing style. Part I examines the contexts in which the sonatas were composed and performed, and reviews likely sources of influence. Part II concentrates on the genesis of the sonatas and the sources, which reveals important information about Mozart's compositional process. In Part III the musical style is studied from the standpoint of rhetoric--a discipline featured in numerous contemporary aesthetic and theoretical textbooks on music.

Author: John Irving
ISBN-10: 0521027411
ISBN-13: 9780521027410
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/02/2006
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d