Assignment for Tuesday, 9/18

MUS 622: Assignment sheet #5

For Tuesday, September 18

Listening
Required [on E-reserve]:

Mozart, Symphony in C Major, No. 41, K. 551 [CD 1915, CD 5412, etc. ]
[If you do not know it already, listen to:
Mozart, Symphony in G Minor No. 40, K. 550 [CD 1915, CD 2415, etc.], score not on E-reserve, only shelf reserve
Mozart, Piano Concerto in D Minor No. 20, K. 466 [CD 1920, CD 1518 etc.], score not on E-reserve, only shelf reserve

Readings
Required:
1) Elaine Sisman, Mozart: The Jupiter Symphony: No. 41, K. 551, Chapters 4, “Design: 4 movement-plans; 5, “Gesture and Expectation: Allegro vivace,” pp. 46-54, and 8, “The rhetoric of the learned style, Finale,” pp. 45-48 (E-reserve)
2) A. Peter Brown, The Symphonic Repertoire, Vol. II, pp. 424-435 [includes discussion of Symphony 41, “Mozart’s Symphonies in Historical Context,” and a Bibliographic Overview (E-reserve) Brown book also on shelf reserve. [ML 1255 .B87 2002, Vol. 2]
3) Jonathan D. Kramer, Listen to Music, pp, 436-38. (Piano Concert No. 20) (E-reserve)

Supplementary:
Materials on G-minor symphony:

1. Simon P. Keefe, “The Concertos in Aesthetic and Stylistic Context,” The Cambridge Companion to Mozart, pp. 78-91 (E-reserve)
2. A. Peter Brown, The Symphonic Repertoire, Vol. II, pp. 419-423 (E-reserve)
3. P. Stedman, The Symphony, pp. 49-54 [Mozart, Sym. 40] (E-reserve)