Preface to the First Edition ix // Preface to the Second Edition xi // List of Abbreviations xiii // List of Illustrations xv // Key to Music Sources, Editions, Documents,. // and Most Frequently Mentioned Treatises xvii // Introduction 1 // 1 Mozart’s World of Sound 7 // Keyboard Instruments of Mozart’s Time 7 // Mozart’s Training on All Kinds of Keyboard Instruments 10 // The Sound of Mozart’s Own Fortepiano by Anton Walter 19 // Knee Levers for Lifting the Dampers on Mozart’s Pianos 22 // Necessary Use of the Damper-Lifting Device or Pedal 24 // Mozart’s Fortepiano Pedal Instrument 33 // The Range of Mozart’s Fortepiano 35 // A Word about Piano Mechanics 40 // 2 Dynamics 43 // Basic Dynamic Signs Customary during the Eighteenth Century 43 // Dynamic Signs in Mozart’s Piano Works 45 // The Indications Sotto Voce and Dolce 48 // Static and Dynamic Markings 50 // Crescendo and Decrescendo 51 // Mozart’s Accent Signs 53 // Supplementing Incomplete or Missing Dynamics 60 // The Echo Syndrome 65 // 3 Problems of Tempo and Rhythm 71 // Tempo Problems 71 // A List of the Most Important Tempo Markings 77 // Alla breve Time 82 // Playing “In Time” 84 // Agogics 85 // Rubato 88 // V // Some Peculiarities of Rhythmic Notation 93 // Tripletization 97 // Hemiolas 98 // 4 Articulation 103 // Legato 105 // Legato Slurs and Articulation Slurs 107 // Mixed Articulation 121 // Portato 123 // Staccato 123 // Unmarked Passages 129 // 5 Ornaments 135 // Appoggiaturas 138 // Arpeggios 174 // Turns 176 // Trills 188 // Endings of Trills 203 // The Half-Shake (Pralltriller) 205 // 6 Improvised Embellishments 213 // The Old Rules for Placing Embellishments 215 // Necessary Additions of Notes 216 // Embellishment Models by Mozart 227 // When Additions Are a Matter of Taste 233 // When Additions Are Definitely Out of Style 243 // 7 Cadenzas and Lead-Ins (Eingänge) 251 //
Are Cadenzas Improvisations or Premeditated Compositions? 252 // Structural Differences between Cadenzas and Free Improvisations 253 // Composing Cadenzas for Mozart’s Concertos 254 // Lead-ins and Other Fermata Embellishments 275 // Proper Places for Fermata Embellishments 279 // Where Fermata Embellishments Are Questionable and // Where No Lead-ins Should Be Played 284 // The Various Meanings of Fermata Signs 285 // 8 “Expression and Gusto” 289 // Expression with the Help of Dynamic Shadings 292 // Expression with the Help of Articulation 295 // Expressive Rhythmic Shadings 300 // Harmonic Expression 301 // Proper Accompaniment Helps Expression 303 // Expression of Comic or Tragic Moods 307 // Keep Smiling! 313 // Are Repeats Compulsory? 315 // 9 In Search of the Best Text 319 // The Neue Mozart Ausgabe (NMA) 320 // Other Recommendable Editions 322 // Text Problems in Piano Sonatas 322 // Text Problems in Piano Concertos 328 // What Comes after the Neue Mozart Ausgabe? 337 // A Recent New Edition of the Piano Concerto in E-flat Major, K. 271 (Breitkopf) (... ...)