Performance Insights for Mozart Piano Sonatas Derived from Eighteenth-Century Compositional Guides

This thesis uses ideas found in the eighteenth-century composition guides of Joseph Riepel, Heinrich Christoph Koch, Anton Reicha and Johann Friedrich Daube to gain insight into the musical language found in the Mozart sonatas K. 281, 333, 457 and 576. The contemporaneous concepts of the phrase punctuation, expansion and extension, phrase hierarchy, logical relations, and topics forms the basis of the analyses. Insights from the analysis lead to suggestions for performance related to tempos, dynamic changes, phrase separation, pauses, hierarchy of stresses, and other musical elements. The analyses offer more dramatic possibilities of expression, supplementing the innate communicative ability of the performer.

Name thesis:degree_name

A.Mus.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Music

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Hudson, Sharon J.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Hill, John W.
• Heiles, William H.
• Tipei, Sever
• Ehlen, Timothy

• Koch
• Riepel
• Mozart piano sonatas
• K. 281
• K. 333
• K. 457
• K. 576
• phrase punctuation
• eighteenth-century theory

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 2010 Sharon J. Hudson

Language dc:language

en

Handle dc:identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/2142/18428

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/18428