Topics To Research

• Mozart - Life, Works, Style
• Influences on Mozart's style
• The Classical solo concerto
• Sturm und Drang
• Appoggiatura
• Neopolitan relationships
• Secondary dominants
• Chromatic passing note
• Heterophony

Bibliography

• Grout - pp.497-511
• Cambridge Music Guide - pp.242-259
• Mozart (New Grove Biographies) - Sadie
• The Mozart Companion - Landon and Mitchell
• The Classical Style - Charles Rosen
• Mozart's Piano Concertos - Girdlestone
• The Mozart Compendium - H.C.Robbins-Landon

Questions

1. Give the precise location, citing the bar and beat number and instrument(s) where appropriate, of one example of the following:
   1. a written out turn in the piano part
   2. a passage of syncopation
   3. a tonic pedal in the horns
   4. a passage of heterophony between the RH of the piano and the first violins
   5. a dominant minor ninth in the piano
   6. a cadential six-four chord
   7. a chord of the Neopolitan Sixth
   8. a phrygian cadence
   9. an appoggiatura
   10. an accented passing note

2. What elements of the classical style are present in this extract? Give examples.

3. Discuss Mozart's use of Sturm und Drang elements in the concerto.