MUSIC 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Catgut, Sonatina, Fortepiano
13 Apr 2013
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Concerto drama of contrast between orchestra and soloist. Typically a 3-movement genre orchestra alone (0:00) soloist alone (2:04) one supports the other (2:12 and 3:18) soloist and orchestra of equal importance (3:33) 2nd movement: sonatina, theme and variations or aba form. 3rd movement: finale - sonata or rondo(recursion of a) form. Classical to modern instruments fortepiano: smaller, softer-sounding than pianoforte catgut: softer, warmer than wire keyboards: harpsichord to fortepiano to pianoforte. Strings: catgut (cattle, sheep or goat guts) to strings wound with wire. Brass: mostly without valves or keys to change pipe length - limited range. Valves arrived early 19th cen: mostly used as accompaniment instrument. Percussion: mainly timpani used; other percussion sounds added to orchestra later. Double-exposition concerto form vs. normal sonata form left salzburg to vienna age 25, hoping for employment in royal court. In vienna, composed 17 piano concertos before death. 23 out of 27 total gave mozart opportunity to demo skills as performer and composer.
