Rhythmic Gesture in Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni

by Wye Jamison Allanbrook

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Wye Jamison Allanbrook's widely influential Rhythmic Gesture in Mozart challenges the view that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's music was a "pure play" of key and theme, more abstract than that of his predecessors. Allanbrook's innovative work shows that Mozart used a vocabulary of symbolic gestures and musical rhythms to reveal the nature of his characters and their interrelations. The dance rhythms and meters that pervade his operas conveyed very...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0226014045

ISBN13:9780226014043

Release Date:January 1983

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:408 Pages

Weight:1.10 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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Arts, Music & Photography Biographical Biographies Biographies & History Biography & History Performing Arts

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