Ornamentation and Improvisation in Mozart / / Frederick Neumann.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Neumann, Frederick,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2019]; ©1986
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 5286
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)

This book is a sequel to Frederick Neumann's Ornamentation in Baroque and Post-Baroque Music, With Special Emphasis on J.S. Bach (Princeton, 1978). In the present volume, the first work on this subject for Mozart's music, the author continues his important contributions to the search for historically correct performance practices, and to the liberation of the performer from improperly conceived and overly restrictive interpretation of musical scores. The first part of this book attempts to free ornamentation in Mozart from rigorism that has resulted from confusing the pure abstraction of ornament tables with concrete musical situations. The second part deals with pitches that were not written in the score yet often intended to be added when Mozart left "white spots" in his notation. These additions range from single notes to lengthy cadenzas. The problem addressed is the question of where such additions are possible or necessary and how they might best be designed.Professor Neumann draws on an immense knowledge of the literature written during Mozart's time and on his own comprehension of the subtleties of Mozart's music and musical styles. Refusing to interpret the sources dogmatically, he frees performers of Mozart from the rigid princples too often imposed by modern scholars.Frederick Neumann is Professor of Music Emeritus at the University of Richmond.Originally published in 1986.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- PART I : THEORNAMENTS -- Introduction -- 1. The Vorschlag: Types, Terms, Symbols, Sources -- 2. The Vocal Appoggiatura -- 3. The Instrumental Appoggiatura -- 4. The Grace Note -- 5. Ambiguities and Special Cases -- 6. The Zwischenschlag -- 7. The Slide -- 8. The Trill: Theory -- 9. The Trill: Practice -- 10. The Turn -- 11. The Arpeggio -- PART II : IMPROVISATIONS -- Introduction -- 12. The Appoggiatura in Recitative -- 13. The Appoggiatura in Closed Numbers -- 14. Vocal Cadenzas (Fermata Embellishments) -- 15. Diminutions in Arias -- 16. The Special Case of the Piano Concertos -- 17. Instrumental Cadenzas -- 18. Eingange -- 19. Embellishments in Repeats -- Appendix -- Bibliography of Works Cited -- Index