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und ihrer frühen Rezeption’, Archiv für Musikwissenschaft 37/2 (1980), 99-134. Küthen, Hans-Werner, Beethoven und die Rezeption der Alten Musik: Die hohe Schule der Überlieferung (Bonn: Beethoven-Haus, 2002). La Motte-Haber, Helga de, ‘Abstraktion und Archaik: Die Kategorie des Spätwerks’, ‘In rebus musicis’: Zur Musik in Geschichte, Erziehung und Kulturpolitik. Richard Jakoby zum 60. Geburtstag, ed. Andreas Eckhardt and Rudolf Stephan (Mainz: Schott, 1990), pp.39-44. Landon, H. C. Robbins, The symphonies of Joseph Haydn (London: Universal Edition & Rockliff, 1955). ______ Haydn: chronicle and works, 5 vols. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1976-80). ______ and Wyn Jones, David, Haydn: his life and music (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988). ______ 1791: Mozart’s last year (London: Thames and Hudson, 1989). ______ ‘Mozart’s Mass in C minor, K.427’, Studies in musical sources and styles: essays in honor of Jan LaRue, ed. Eugene Wolf and Edward Roesner (Madison: A-R Editions, 1990), pp.419-423. ______ ‘The Requiem: its history and textual problems’, The Mozart essays (New York: Thames & Hudson, 1995), pp.191-205. Langegger, Florian, Mozart, Vater und Sohn, eine psychologische Untersuchung (Zürich/Frieburg im Breisgau: Atlantis 1978). Langley, Robin, Introduction to Samuel Wesley, Fourteen Short Pieces for Organ (London: Oxford University Press, 1981). ______ Classical organ music: from the death of J. S. Bach to the advent of Mendelssohn, 3 vols. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986). ______ ‘Samuel Wesley’s contribution to the development of English organ literature’, Journal of the British Institute of Organ Studies 17 (1993), 102–16. Larsen, Jens Peter, Handel, Haydn, and the Viennese Classical Style, tr. Ulrich Kramer 440
(Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1988). LaRue, Jan, Guidelines for style analysis (New York: Norton, 1970). Lee, Eun Young, ‘Fugues for piano in the early nineteenth century’, DMA doc., University of Texas (1994). Leeson, Daniel N., Opus ultimum: the story of the Mozart Requiem (New York: Algora, 2004). Lester, Joel, Compositional theory in the eighteenth century (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992). Levin, Robert D., ‘Zu den von Süßmayr komponierten Sätzen des Requiems KV 626’, Mozart-Jahrbuch 1991, 475-493. ‘Improvised embellishments in Mozart’s keyboard music’, Early Music 20/2 (May 1992), 221-33. Levinson, Jerrold, Music, art, and metaphysics: essays in philosophical aesthetics (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1990). Lightwood, James T., Samuel Wesley, musician: the story of his life (London: Epworth, 1937). Llewellyn, R. T., ‘Parallel attitudes to form in late Beethoven and late Goethe: throwing aside the appearance of art’, Modern Language Review 63 (April 1968), 407-16. Löffler, Hans, ‘Johann Ludwig Krebs: Mitteilungen über sein Leben und Wirken’, Bach-Jahrbuch 1930, 100–129. Lonsdale, Roger, Dr Charles Burney: a literary biography (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965). Lunn, Henry C., ‘The Gloucester Musical Festival’, The Musical Times and Singing Class Circular 13/308 (October 1, 1868), 535-538. Luttig, Peter, ‘Der Palestrina-Stil als Satzideal in der Musiktheorie zwischen 1750 und 1900’, PhD diss., Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main 441
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WRESTLING WITH THE GERMAN DEVIL: FI
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ABSTRACT ‘After’ can be taken b
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS There are many peo
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INTRODUCTION ‘Every hearer enjoys
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esponse was: ‘the fugue is no lon
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instrumental fugues of Joseph Haydn
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world of their own. The study concl
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facts and the ‘soft technology’
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DEFINING FUGUE But what are they? W
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elow). For how many voices or parts
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indeed a complete counter-expositio
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on two pitches throughout, tonic an
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already become the historicising na
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Catholic tradition, but Albrechtsbe
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the texture as a whole coincides in
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kind experimentalism of Samuel Wesl
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The clearest sign of things to come
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Perhaps a clue can be found in the
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CHAPTER 1 THE CIRCLE OF J. S. BACH
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FINE DISTINCTIONS (1): MISATTRIBUTE
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sounding object, nothing has change
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Mendelssohn, Schumann, Spitta, Wido
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pieces are known from a single copy
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very good; and the ends of both mov
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ever, could have written it?’ 23
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incorrectly prepared suspended four
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has a number of doubtful features.
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einforces them. Its texture is impo
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of thinking over long spans.’ 44
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W. F. Bach and Krebs have always en
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the equitable distribution of his e
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slender volumes, including many pie
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In style (there is no particular th
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and it is the least comfortable bit
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voices inverted, and serve the purp
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each line in a polyphonic texture a
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If its general type is old, however
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thematic material. The subject coul
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Karl Geiringer makes an almost emba
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prolix F minor fugue, the expressiv
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Kittel, and Krebs himself. 76 Inevi
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[that] a keyboard composer can and
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Ex.1.12b shows the start of a fugue
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Egypt) did not prevent him from bei
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The very slow harmonic rhythm, howe
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If not inimitably characteristic, t
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As we saw in the first part of this
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subject is also expansive; it too c
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to expand and elaborate the surface
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The significance of this sort of st
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By the time the halfway point is re
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‘originality’—of historical p
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to follow in his father’s footste
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CHAPTER 2 J. S. BACH IN LONDON: CON
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of the mark. 4 Handel’s influence
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that would perpetuate his oratorios
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—also remained strongly Handelian
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in the Overture to Alcina (1735). A
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Root-movement is quite unpredictabl
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Superficially they have much in com
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situations; but his influence outla
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ounded too closely by early Methodi
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At first the real focus of attentio
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surprisingly grammatical, confirmin
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the subject (where again he seems n
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in Bath) recommended that Charles
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have, to a head-injury sustained in
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The ending is rather curious: he re
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hectic week, he could choose betwee
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even have had an informal agreement
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Unlike Handel, however, there no tu
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Throughout the nineteenth century t
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Here, however (especially once the
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published separately over the next
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Likewise does the fugue subject of
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A little more Bach can be seen, per
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attitudes were representative, or e
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consciously parodying his Methodist
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his nature to be exclusive about an
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elieve) in German, the compleatly w
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no other way one could hear operas,
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a stretto treatment (at one minim
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have had a rich Treat in chewing th
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admirable Musick might be played in
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At this point one might have expect
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This is soon accompanied by quaver
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The C minor entry in b.50 destabili
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WESLEY’S LAST YEARS During this p
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Wilhelm Friedemann (see chapter 1).
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describes it well: ‘The concertan
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with sixteen-part orchestra’ (Car
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would be of interest to a budding c
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wrestling with the problem of integ
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Clearly, Haydn is letting fugal thi
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By contrast, the fugue which closes
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unknown in any other Haydn fugue (a
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around b.54, homophonic quaver figu
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very little to it, which is of cour
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When Haydn wrote string quartets, t
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place, socially and musically; and
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of the minuet, both here and in man
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The distinction that Kirkendale dre
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variety of keys as well: not just I
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detail. As far as the tastes of Pri
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constructed in an entirely new mann
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Note the extent to which Haydn’s
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A clear example of this can be seen
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Haydn would write only one more fug
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At any rate, the effect of later ei
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appears not wholly to satisfy Kirke
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Junker and others were neither part
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sentimental’ (c.1814?), Haydn’s
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intensity of the debate? This is ho
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is an almost perfect instrument for
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CHAPTER 4 MOZART, FINISHED AND UNFI
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as such—at times even creating th
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thought and practice until very rec
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sonata movement sets up certain exp
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organ music: from the death of J. S
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(to us) the direct influence of J.
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and back without a sign that anythi
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is not necessarily at variance with
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conclusion is not perfectly in acco
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there can be no doubt that Mozart,
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to enclose your letter to me?’ 35
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The Dean was in a state of great ex
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‘passive’ voices; Ex.4.5 shows
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against itself, augmented and inver
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Andante also found favour, but part
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enewed application to this task. Wh
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for a child of twelve. The subject
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These masses mark the two poles of
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After this exposition the cadential
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is a much less dramatic tale, of ca
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happened, on October 26 1783 at Ben
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the voices. There is a single expos
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ascending, descending (or both), st
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(apart from particella for wind and
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up to Mozart’s standard, the melo
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weight than Süssmayr’s say-so. B
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crisis [Lebenskrise] from which, in
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all, please few with counterpoint a
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of much that was excellent’. 3 In
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continually surpass his own creativ
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This ethical approach to music, so
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Like Mozart, Beethoven was a great
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There are a few reasonably complete
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It is, in part, a question of autho
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voice ‘Parthie’, an oboe concer
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although it is in a different key;
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which had such a similar subject (E
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his early life is there a single re
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‘Metaphorically, Beethoven was al
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On the other hand, whilst there is
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of a sort that has if anything tend
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To thus posit ‘lateness’ about
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historical development; 61 all thes
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These critics were not necessarily
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could anyone have expected that Bee
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hear it more often. Well, once more
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development came the flood of ‘mu
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Sometimes, it is just noise, in the
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At times, so eccentric are his text
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eighteenth century; and however muc
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Carpani; from the time he entered E
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His opp.1bis, 5, and 6, however, (p
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nineteenth century—the style of H
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movement. There is no danger of irr
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time, whereas the glory of many a B
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On the other hand, the tonal range
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It is with some surprise that we he
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A canon at the fourth below, ‘we
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Clementi. In this respect the issue
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turns out to be none other than our
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None of these, in any case, remotel
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traditional form.’ 125 Weber expr
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Arioso into the rest of the movemen
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eturned by b.248. On the other hand
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grise, it nevertheless exerts consi
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Page 412 and 413: inhospitable to fugue.’ 30 To the
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Page 416 and 417: Exx.2.11-13 S. Wesley, ‘4 Fugues
Page 418 and 419: Chapter 4 Mozart, finished and unfi
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Page 422 and 423: BIBLIOGRAPHY [anon.] ‘The organ r
Page 424 and 425: Beethoven, Ludwig van, The letters
Page 426 and 427: Brown, Clive, ‘Perspectives on Be
Page 428 and 429: ______ Beethoven (Oxford: Oxford Un
Page 430 and 431: zu Köln 1998, 315-321. ______ and
Page 432 and 433: Fisk, Josiah, ‘Classical music an
Page 434 and 435: ______ ‘The “Grosse Fuge”: an
Page 436 and 437: 1967). Horowitz, Joseph, ‘Mozart
Page 438 and 439: ______ Fugue and fugato in Rococo a
Page 442 and 443: (1991). MacArdle, Donald W., ‘Bee
Page 444 and 445: contrappunto sopra il canto fermo (
Page 446 and 447: Nicolosi, Robert, T. S. Eliot and m
Page 448 and 449: ______ Double counterpoint and cano
Page 450 and 451: Routh, Francis, Early English organ
Page 452 and 453: Schwarz, John I. jr, ‘Samuel and
Page 454 and 455: ______ ‘Beethoven’s ninth symph
Page 456 and 457: Record, 90 (1960), 163-74. ______
Page 458 and 459: and Baroque’, Church, stage, and
Page 460 and 461: Winter, Robert S., ‘Of realizatio
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