Individual Traits of Metric Organization in Mozart’s Compositions for Chamber Ensemble: Graphics in the Scores and the Sound Image

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Svetlana O. Pechyonkina

Abstract

The article is devoted to the individual features in terms of
rhythm and meter in Mozart’s chamber music, which are
examined from the positions of meter changes during the course
of the composition. The author of the article presents a short
overview of existent literature from outside of Russia on this
issue, where she singles outs two main trends in the examination
of metrical manipulations. The first one includes the changes
of meters on the borders of the respective sections of the forms
(as a rule, between the primary and subsidiary theme groups),
while the second one focuses on meter changes at the initial
periods of various forms. The author highlights several more
types of metric combinations in Mozart’s string quartets:
combination of the respective meters with the different quantity
of beats of measures (duple and triple measures), superimposition
of the various meters on each other, as well as metric polyphony.

Keywords: musical rhythm and meter, Mozart’s string
quartets, metrical polyphony

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How to Cite
Pechyonkina, S. O. (2013). Individual Traits of Metric Organization in Mozart’s Compositions for Chamber Ensemble: Graphics in the Scores and the Sound Image. Music Scholarship / Problemy Muzykal’noj Nauki, (2), 252–257. Retrieved from https://musicscholar.ru/index.php/PMN/article/view/153
Section
Musical Poetics, Rhetoric and Semantics
Author Biography

Svetlana O. Pechyonkina, The Saratov State L.V. Sobinov Conservatory

Post-graduate student at the Music History Department

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