MUSI 3405 Lecture 1: Music History Unit 1- Lec 1
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Lecture 1: toward new beginnings: mozart, beethoven, and the enlightenment- 1/18/18: questions, how does mozart resolve the main compositional tension (synthesis) in his jupiter symphony, coda- fugal style- ends on the c motive, fugal polyphony- Sense of equal treatment at the end- brings closure by bringing back c motive (mozart: world order in flux (cid:523)context of mozart"s life in vienna(cid:524) Capitalism causes people to move into the cities: wealth and the middle class: status and respectability. First theme is harmonically phrased: development, recap, analysis of the piece, a motive- similar to bach style (stile. Antico: b motive- symphonic galant technique, c motive- homophonic motive, transition- mm. 36- contrapuntal treatment: d motive- mm 56, mm 63- c motive, first thematic area-- transitions, motivic diversity: a, b, c. 19-35: a" + b"= mm 9-19: dynamics change: hint to, a- introduces (cid:498)learned(cid:499) style mm. 36-53: d- continues fugal imitation (mm 53-63, transition- a, d, and c.
