Mozart's ‘Haydn’ Quartets
Composing Up and Down without Rules
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11498351 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Esther Cavett-Dunsby, Esther Cavett (0000-0002-4842-4641, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 113 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 57-80 |
| Publication date | 1988-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the Royal Musical Association (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0269-0403 • E-ISSN: 1471-6933 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jrma/113.1.57 |
| OpenAlex | W2025741445 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 5 |
In Classical sonata form, the second group - usually in the dominant or relative major - is normally recapitulated in the tonic. This means that a composer of sonatas must choose whether to transpose the second group in the recapitulation up or down a fourth/fifth or sixth/third. What advice, then, would Mozart have offered if his pupil Thomas Attwood had asked him how to decide whether the second group should come back transposed up or down
Art · Group (periodic table) · Literature · MOZART · Physics · Diverse Musicological Studies · Musicology and Musical Analysis · Psychology
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| Citations per year | 0.11 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2025 (19) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |