Mozart: The 'Jupiter' Symphony

Elaine R. Sisman; Julian Rushton

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511613418

This guide to Mozart's last and most celebrated symphony explores the historical background and aesthetic context of the work as well as the music itself. The early chapters examine the expectations of the symphony in Mozart's Vienna, Mozart's career in 1788 – the year of the three last symphonies - and the changing reception of the 'Jupiter' over the subsequent two hundred years. A separate chapter is then devoted to each movement of the symphony with musical discussion illuminated by a broad array of topics. Finally, a lucid exposition of rhetoric reveals the connections between elevated and learned styles and the sublime, enabling the reader to grasp the effect Mozart's music had upon his contemporaries.

"...it is a delight to find such a text immediately setting about debunking the kind of canonical valorization which is our critical heritage since the Back Revival. No mere collection of empirical data here, however, as Sisman links audience rowdiness and aestheic attitudes with unproblematic ease; a critical turn which should be less alien to more writers." Steve Sweeney-Turner, The Musical Times

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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Preface
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1 - The symphony in Mozart's Vienna
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2 - Grand style and sublime in eighteenth-century aesthetics
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3 - The composition and reception of the “Jupiter” symphony
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4 - Design: four movement-plans
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5 - Gesture and expectation: Allegro vivace
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6 - Structure and expression: Andante cantabile
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7 - Phrase rhythm: Menuetto, Allegretto
pp 63-67
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8 - The rhetoric of the learned style: Finale, Molto allegro
pp 68-79
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Appendix: A. Oulibicheff, “The ‘Jupiter’ Symphony of Mozart” (1843)
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Notes
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Index
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Also of interest
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Frontmatter
pp i-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

List of tables
pp ix-x

Preface
pp xi-xii

1 - The symphony in Mozart's Vienna
pp 1-8

2 - Grand style and sublime in eighteenth-century aesthetics
pp 9-20

3 - The composition and reception of the “Jupiter” symphony
pp 21-36

4 - Design: four movement-plans
pp 37-45

5 - Gesture and expectation: Allegro vivace
pp 46-54

6 - Structure and expression: Andante cantabile
pp 55-62

7 - Phrase rhythm: Menuetto, Allegretto
pp 63-67

8 - The rhetoric of the learned style: Finale, Molto allegro
pp 68-79

Appendix: A. Oulibicheff, “The ‘Jupiter’ Symphony of Mozart” (1843)
pp 80-85

Notes
pp 86-101

Select bibliography
pp 102-105

Index
pp 106-110

Also of interest
pp 111-116

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