SOME ASPECTS OF VERTICAL TYPOLOGIES IN THE LAST STRING QUARTET OF W. A. MOZART, KV 590, F MAJOR

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dc.coverageSTUDIA UBB MUSICA, Volume 54 (LIV), No. 1, June 2009, pp. 181-194en-US
dc.creatorFODOR, Attila
dc.date2009-06-30
dc.date.accessioned2026-02-21T20:20:09Z
dc.descriptionAs a part of the Prussian Quartets, commissioned by the notorious amateur cello player and music lover, Frederick William II, King of Prussia, the String Quartet in F, KV 590 occupies a particular place in Mozart’s chamber music. In spite of emphasizing the cello part, Mozart found a middle course between his quartet style and the specific demands of the commissioner. This consists of  an intensive polyphonic writing applied mostly to the final part of the last quartet, a solution which keeps the “appearance” of emphasizing of a single voice (in our case - the cello) between the condition of keeping the balance of all voices, as a characteristic solution of the polyphonic techniques. Our analysis is focused on identifying the main vertical typologies as specific composition methods like: the unison, as an opening technique, repeated sounds in the context of isorhythmic changing harmonies, arpeggios, the setting up of vertical sounding planes, poly-metric components, and contrapuntal techniques. The complexity of these vertical structures in this Mozart’s late composition, bear closely upon the monumentality of the construction, and in such a meaning it has a modern effect in comparison with the musical language of the epoch, anticipating those stylistic elements which are characteristic to the first creative period of Beethoven.en-US
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dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14637/2347
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherBabeș-Bolyai University / Cluj University Pressen-US
dc.relationhttps://studia.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/index.php/subbmusica/article/view/9039/8765
dc.rightsCopyright (c) 2009 Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Musicaen-US
dc.rightshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0en-US
dc.sourceStudia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Musica; Volume 54, No. 1, June 2009; 181-194en-US
dc.source2065-9628
dc.source1844-4369
dc.subjectvertical typologiesen-US
dc.subjectcounterpointen-US
dc.subjectMozarten-US
dc.subjectstring quarteten-US
dc.subjectcello,en-US
dc.subjectlate styleen-US
dc.subjectPrussian cycleen-US
dc.subjectQuartet Concertanten-US
dc.titleSOME ASPECTS OF VERTICAL TYPOLOGIES IN THE LAST STRING QUARTET OF W. A. MOZART, KV 590, F MAJORen-US
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dc.typePeer-reviewed Articleen-US
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