Hear commentator Rob Kapilow demonstrate how Mozart sets up our expectations but takes us in unpredictable directions in the String Quintet in G minor. His music, like a hologram, flashes back and forth between the simple and the complicated.
Link: Mozart’s Deceptive Simplicity

Loading ...
Tags: classical, classical music, melody, Mozart, NPR, phrase length, phrasing, simplicity, symmetry, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
This entry was posted
on Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 at 11:06 pm and is filed under Music Education, Prose.
You can leave a comment if you follow my Living Room Rules. If not, you can leave a trackback from your own site.
[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Graham English and Joe MuscaraJoe Stone, Rohan Kar. Rohan Kar said: Graham English: Mozart’s Deceptive Simplicity http://bit.ly/21nPdM [...]