Word: mozartism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mozart year" is over. And with it, the excesses that first defined the short-lived Austrian composer and then submerged his memory in a torrent of commercial hype and cocktail-party chatter...
...sing about such nonbucolic topics as older women sleeping with younger men. Even the down-home Reba McEntire, who spent her youth on her father's ranch and on the rodeo circuit, went on to college, where she studied classical violin and piano and "analyzed Mozart every which...
Jessica L. McBee '92, former president of the Mozart Society Orchestra, said her group could also use assistance from the new fund in moving from Paine to Sanders as a regular performance site...
...capital "C", it would denote a very narrow body of music composed primarily during the second half of the eighteenth century, according to a number of more-or-less definite rules guiding the practice of composition. In this sense, the only truly Classical composers are people like Haydn and Mozart (and even this comes under debate). Neither Bach nor Wagner would qualify...
...start to listen to things other than the "warhorses" of the classical repertoire, you'll find things that you recognize: folk tunes in Dvorak, jazz rhythms in Ravel, and humor in Mozart's operas (try the "Magic Flute"). In any case, you've already mastered the basics if you can recognize a melody and move to a rhythm...