Metric manipulations in Haydn and Mozart
Subtitle: Chamber Music for Strings, 1787-1791
By: Danuta Mirka.
Series: Oxford studies in music theory
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780195384925
Subjects: Haydn, Joseph, -- 1732-1809 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, -- 1756-1791 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Musical meter and rhythm.; Chamber music -- 18th century -- Analysis, appreciation.; Chamber music -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Musical meter between composition and perception; value: Finding meter; value: Sustaining meter-challenging meter; value: Changing meter I : change of period; value: Changing meter II : change of phase; value: Changing meter III : change of tactus; value: Analyses of long-range metrical strategies; value: Wit, comedy and metric manipulations in Haydn and Mozart's personal styles.