Mozart The 'Jupiter' Symphony [Hardcover]

This guide to Mozart's last and most celebrated symphony explores the historical background and aesthetic contexts of the work as well as the music itself.The historical background and aesthetic contexts of the work as well as the music itself are explored in this guide to Mozart's last and most celebrated symphony. Separate chapters devoted to each movement of the symphony interweave musical discussion with a broad array of topics.The historical background and aesthetic contexts of the work as well as the music itself are explored in this guide to Mozart's last and most celebrated symphony. Separate chapters devoted to each movement of the symphony interweave musical discussion with a broad array of topics.This guide to Mozart's last and most celebrated symphony explores the historical background and aesthetic contexts of the work as well as the music itself. The early chapters examine the expectations of the symphony in Mozart's Vienna, Mozart's career in 1788 (the year of the three last symphonies), and the changing reception of the Jupiter over the subsequent two hundred years. A separate chapter is devoted to each movement of the symphony with musical discussion illuminated by a broad array of topics.Preface; 1. The symphony in Mozart's Vienna; 2. Grand style and sublime in eighteenth-century aesthetics; 3. The composition and reception of the Jupiter Symphony; 4. Gesture and expectation: Allegro vivace; 5. Structure and expression: Andante cantabile; 6. Phrase rhythm: Menuetto, Allegretto; 7. The rhetoric of the learned style: Finale, molto allegro; Appendix: A. Oulibicheff, The Jupiter Symphony of Mozart (1843). ...it is a delight to find such a text immediately setting about debunking the kind of canonical valorization which is our critical heritage since the Back Revival. No mere collection of empirical data here, however, as Sisman links audience rowdiness and aestheic attitudes with unproblematic ease; a critical turn which should be less alien to morelCk