Mozart - A Tale of Two Keys

Informationen zum Autor Tim Carter is a musicologist who has taught at the Universities of Leicester and Lancaster, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has been awarded numerous fellowships, including at the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Villa I Tatti, the Newberry Library, and the National Humanities Center. Carter is an honorary member of the American Musicological Society, the Royal Musical Association, and the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music. Klappentext Why do Mozart's musical works in major and minor keys sound so different from each other, and what creative insights might these differences reveal? In Mozart: A Tale of Two Keys, Tim Carter explores the composer's instrumentation, tuning, and temperament techniques, offering new insights into his symphonies and sonatas. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Music Examples, Figures, and Tables Acknowledgments Editorial (etc.) Principles 1: Theme and Variations 2: The "Meaning" of Keys: Eighteenth-Century Views 3: E-flat Major: The Flat Seventh and Other Space-Opening Motions 4: A Major: ^5 or ^3 and Other Problems 5: Rosina and Her Sisters 6: "A Major" Seduction 7: Farewell to Nancy Storace (in Three Flats) 8: Instrumental Complications Works Cited Index of Mozart's Works General Index

Product details

• Authors: Tim Carter, Tim (Distinguished Professor of Music Emer Carter
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.09.2025
• EAN: 9780197806333
• ISBN: 978-0-19-780633-3
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, MUSIC / History & Criticism, History of Music, Musicians, singers, bands and groups, Composers and songwriters, Musical scores, lyrics & libretti, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Musical scores, lyrics and libretti, Orchestras