Is conducting from the piano "real conducting?" Does one need formal orchestral conducting training in order to conduct classical-era piano concertos from the piano? Do Mozart piano concertos need a conductor? These are all questions this paper attempts to answer.

Mok, Kiu Ho. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 128-137). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / LIST OF TABLES --- p.vii / LIST OF MUSICAL EXAMPLES --- p.x / Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter Chapter 1. --- Tradition of Church Music in Salzburg before W. A. Mozart --- p.8 / Missa Brevis in Salzburg before W. A. Mozart --- p.19 / Missa Solemnis in Salzburg before W. A. Mozart --- p.25 / Missa Brevis et Solemnis in Salzburg before W. A. Mozart --- p.33 / Chapter Chapter 2. --- Mozart´ةs Salzburg Masses --- p.40 / Personal and Musical conflicts between Mozart and Colloredo --- p.41 / Mozart´ةs Salzburg Masses and Momentary Breakthrough --- p.48 / Chapter Chapter 3. --- "Mozart´ةs Mass in C Minor, K. 427" --- p.65 / Leopold Mozart´ةs Aesthetic Preferences --- p.69 / "Mozart´ةs Mass in C Minor, K. 427: Overview" --- p.83 / "Mozart's Mass in C Minor, K. 427: Old Style" --- p.95 / "Mozart´ةs Mass in C Minor, K. 427: New Style" --- p.100 / Conclusion --- p.119 / Appendix / The Latin Text of the Ordinary Movements of the Mass --- p.123 / Bibliography --- p.126

During his lifetime, Johann Christian Bach (1739--1782) was considered the most famous musician of the Bach family throughout England and Europe. Although his music was highly regarded in the eighteenth century, little scholarly work has been undertaken on the historical and analytical aspects of his compositions. His keyboard compositions are valuable in tracing his musical development since this was the only genre that he wrote throughout his career in Berlin, Milan and London. Previous analyses of Bach's keyboard music have mainly focused on stylistic development, thus neglecting the importance of phrase and larger formal functions. / I adopt William Caplin's theory of formal functions to analyze Bach's solo keyboard sonatas: the Solo in A minor from Berlin (1750--55), three sonatas from the Milan collection (1755), six sonatas from London Op. 5 (1767), and six sonatas from London Op. 17 (1773--4). I demonstrate that Bach gradually refines phrase and thematic functions of the exposition of first-movement sonatas. I examine Bach's use of core technique and subordinate theme-like units in development sections and discuss the reasoning behind different recapitulation strategies. I also compare the sonata forms of the first movement to the second and third movements, and discuss other types of large-scale formal design (theme and variations, minuet and trio, and rondo). / Many sources indicate that Mozart was greatly influenced by Bach, but they remain vague in describing the type and extent of this influence. Building on previous melodic, motivic and stylistic studies, I draw important phrase-structural connections between the music of Bach and Mozart. I discuss the construction of Mozart's early piano pieces (KV 6 through K 284) and demonstrate that he adopts particular phrase-structural and thematic designs similar to pieces from Bach's Op. 5 and 17 collections. Through form functional analysis, I illustrate Bach's development of phrase and thematic structures and provide important phrase-structural evidence of his influence on the music of Mozart.

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This dissertation explores the use of topics for dramatic purposes in Mozart's Così fan tutte. The five analytical chapters are organized around a central question: how do pastoral and fanfare topics shape the plot of Così fan tutte? Chapter 2 highlights the role topics and tropes play in emplacing and nuancing emergent meaning in the Così fan tutte motto. Chapter 3 examines transformative topical tropes in "Ah guarda, sorella." Chapter 4 shows how the horn fifths and fanfare topics in "Per pietà, ben mio" frame Fiordiligi's choice: the Albanian or Guglielmo. Chapter 5 illustrates the relationship between fanfare topics and galant recitative schemas to articulate formal boundaries between accompanied recitatives and arias. The expectations of closure emplaced by the examples from Così fan tutte nuance a reading of "Hai già vinta la causa!" from Le nozze di Figaro. Chapter 6 discusses the role of recitative intrusions and their articulation of the Count's unrest in "Vedrò mentre io sospiro." Detailed analyses and close readings of the topics and tropes in this dissertation drawn from throughout Così fan tutte showcase Mozart's rich deployment of topics in varied musical and dramatic roles.

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Orientador: Oswaldo Giacoia Junior / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-04T00:50:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Torriani_TristanGuillermo_D.pdf: 1020202 bytes, checksum: d9bb0b269fc9b29ee28e3c941f09f6bf (MD5) Previous issue date: 2004 / Resumo: A proposta deste trabalho é mostrar como personagens ideais foram construídos na filosofia e literatura alemãs da segunda metade do século XVIII. No primeiro capítulo, procuro mostrar o desenvolvimento do Iluminismo na sua relação com o teatro nacional alemão. Lessing é, sem sombra de dúvida, o autor decisivo neste sentido, pois reunia em si não só o artista criativo, mas também o teórico. Para explorar essa potente combinação, é necessário que se estude sua produção artística associada à sua teorização estética, política e educacional. Um aspecto particularmente interessante a ser notado é a complexa coexistência de aspectos nacionalistas e cosmopolitas nos personagens e ideais por ele propostos. Os textos discutidos, embora não esgotem sua obra, são indispensáveis para uma compreensão do Iluminismo lessinguiano: a peça juvenil Os judeus, o diálogo Ernesto e Falco, as teses sobre A educação da humanidade, e sua obra-prima Natan, o sábio, que se inspira na figura de Moses Mendelssohn. No segundo capítulo, passo a examinar, entre outros escritos, o ensaio Jerusalém de Moses Mendelssohn, no qual ele ataca a autoridade eclesiástica e estatal, além de advogar a missão monoteísta do Judaísmo e defender a obtenção de direitos para os judeus. Tendo previamente examinado a peça por ele inspirada, não deixa de ser instigante ver o próprio Mendelssohn ou ¿Natan¿ falar em suas próprias palavras, dando-nos, assim, um certo senso de realidade. No terceiro capítulo, procuro mostrar o interesse filosófico de A flauta mágica de Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, com um enfoque sobre os personagens como Papageno, Tamino, Pamina, Papagena e Sarastro. Por algum motivo, este Singspiel parece levantar questões candentes da modernidade como machismo, racismo, e homossexualidade, apesar de sua aparente falta de coerência narrativa. Admitindo o caráter esotérico da narrativa, acompanho, no decorrer da peça, a expressão literal desses conflitos permeando a interação dos personagens. No quarto capítulo, procuro delinear a figura kantiana do ser humano (Mensch) iluminado partindo das diferenças antropológicas concretas, mas posteriormente explicitando os conceitos envolvidos na teorização sobre seu suposto esclarecimento. Ao contrário dos autores anteriores, nos quais se pode falar de uma construção estética de personagens, em Kant essa construção dos tipos antropológicos passa a ser teórica, mesmo se baseada em fatos provindos da literatura de viagem. A prova disso está na sua tentativa, explícita, de construir um conceito de raça humana a partir do critério da cor da pele / Abstract: The main purpose of this dissertation is to show how ideal characters were constructed by major German philosophers and writers during the second half of the eighteenth century. Chapter One (¿Lessing¿) is concerned with establishing and clarifying the relation between Enlightenment philosophy and literature in the German-speaking world. G. E. Lessing is certainly the most critical author in this respect, as he was both a major creative artist and a theoretician to boot. To fully appreciate this powerful combination, it is necessary to study his plays in light of his aesthetic, political and educational ideas and vice versa. It is especially interesting to see the tense coexistence between concerns for national German political and linguistic unity on the one hand, and, on the other hand, a yearning for cosmopolitan, abstract, humanity (the so-called Mensch). Although not exhaustive, my examination covers several texts which are crucial to an adequate understanding of Lessing¿s Enlightenment project: the play, written in his youth, The Jews, the Masonic dialogue Ernest and Falk, the philosophical and theological theses in The education of humanity, and his masterpiece Nathan, the wise, whose title character was inspired by Moses Mendelssohn. Chapter Two (¿Moses Mendelssohn as Nathan¿) reviews, among other writings, the essay Jerusalem, in which Moses Mendelssohn attacks church and state authority, claims a monotheist mission for Judaism and argues for Jewish rights. It is particularly enlightening to compare Lessing¿s fictional Nathan to Mendelssohn himself. Chapter Three (¿Mozart and The magic flute¿) is an attempt to show the philosophical relevance of W. A. Mozart¿s The magic flute, while focussing on characters such as Papageno, Tamino, Pamina, Papagena, Monostatos and Sarastro. For some reason, this Singspiel raises several controversial issues of modernity such as male chauvinism, racism and homosexuality, despite its apparent lack of narrative coherence. I acknowledge the esoteric character of the narrative but follow the literal expression of these conflicts as the characters interact throughout the play. Chapter Four (¿Kant and the Mensch¿) deals with I. Kant¿s pre-critical anthropology and relates it to his concept of the enlightened Mensch. Contrary to the previous authors, however, who were concerned with an aesthetic construction of characters, in Kant¿s case, the construction of anthropological types is, properly understood, theoretical, even if it relies on data gleaned from the then popular travel book literature. Proof of this is his explicit attempt to construct a concept of human race upon the criterion of skin coloration / Doutorado / Filosofia / Doutor em Filosofia

Hummel's Concerto for Trumpet (Concerto a Tromba principale) is overtly operatic and is stylistically reminiscent of Mozart's Don Giovanni. Using the methodology of Leonard Ratner and Wye J. Allanbrook, it is possible to explore gesture and rhetoric in Hummel's Concerto for Trumpet and Mozart's Don Giovanni, and achieve a deeper understanding of the stylistic similarities shared between the two works. In the third movement, dance is the most significant link to Don Giovanni. In the second movement, Hummel alternates between the emotions of Donna Anna and Don Ottavio as they appear in act 1, scene 13. The first movement makes extensive use of contrasting topics identified with buffa and seria characters to advance the musical narrative. Comparing Hummel's concerto and Mozart's opera is a hermeneutical approach that illuminates several performance practice implications. Knowing the expressive similarities and rhetorical strategies common to both works clarifies several issues, such as tempo, ornamentation, and above all, expression. Though Mozart's Don Giovanni and Hummel's Concerto for Trumpet are unequal in significance, it would be valuable to any interpretation of Hummel's concerto if the performer and audience acknowledge that the work is rhetorically and stylistically similar to Mozart's Don Giovanni.

My lecture serves as a critical examination of the Six Sonatas Op. 3, KV. 10-15 by W.A. Mozart. I will engage the variances between the first edition of Op. 3 and those by Joseph Bopp and Louis Moyse edited specifically for the flute in hopes of providing another perspective for students, performers, and pedagogues alike. This study will (1) provide background information regarding the creation of KV. 10-15, (2) include a brief analysis of each sonata, (3) compare adaptions between the first edition, according to NMA, and two modern flute transcriptions, and (4) produce two new transcriptions. My new transcriptions of Sonatas KV. 10 and 13 represent a closer interpretation to the first edition and alerts students and teachers to the differences between the editions by Joseph Bopp and Louis Moyse to that of the first and NMA editions. The goal is to stimulate performers to reappraise their approach to this particular repertoire and to encourage more authentic performances of these engaging sonatas.