by Wye Jamison Allanbrook
University of Chicago Press, 1984
eISBN: 978-0-226-43771-2 | Cloth: 978-0-226-01403-6 | Paper: 978-0-226-01404-3
Library of Congress Classification ML410.M9A73 1983
Dewey Decimal Classification 782.10924

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Wye Jamison Allanbrook’s widely influential Rhythmic Gesture in Mozart challenges the view that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s music was a “pure play” of key and theme, more abstract than that of his predecessors. Allanbrook’s innovative work shows that Mozart used a vocabulary of symbolic gestures and musical rhythms to reveal the nature of his characters and their interrelations. The dance rhythms and meters that pervade his operas conveyed very specific meanings to the audiences of the day.