Mozart's Quintet for Clarinet and Strings: An analytic study.
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Title
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Mozart's Quintet for Clarinet and Strings: An analytic study.
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Identifier
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AAI9218240
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identifier
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9218240
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Creator
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Johnson, Lisa.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Charles Burkhart
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Date
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1992
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Music
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Abstract
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This dissertation focuses on the Quintet for Clarinet and Strings, K.581 of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It is in two main parts: background and analysis. The first part places the piece in its historical context, in terms of both literature and instrument development. The clarinet was in its formative period when Mozart wrote this piece. It is not known whether the composer intended the work to be performed on an instrument of normal compass or an extended (basset) clarinet, for which the Concerto K.622 was written some two years later. The ways in which clarinet range is a compositional determinant in the Quintet are considered at the end of Part I.;Part II of the dissertation is an analysis of the work, directed toward performers, primarily clarinetists, as well as theorists. The first two movements are considered basically in terms of Schenkerian analysis, as their complex structures warrant such an approach. The last two movements, simpler in design, are discussed in more general terms.;The author proposes that a more insightful performance of this work is possible when intuition is supported by analysis. Performance suggestions, both intuitive ones and those that emerge as a result of this analysis, are offered. Suggestions for ornamentation in the slow movement are provided in an appendix.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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D.M.A.
