Should be interesting....since I can't tell what he/she is talking about or even knows....since
he/
she is now also changing the initial comment.
Mozart's String Quartet #19 has
822 measures....and of that only the first
22 Measures are why it's been nicknamed "
The Dissonance". He uses a great deal of
counterpoint in the first movement, afterwards.
It is also
#19 that has the
only slow introduction in
the last 10 of
Mozart’s string quartets. It's these
contrasts in tempos which creates the major contrast between the darkness of the quartet’s introduction and its later burst of brightness....which has had people questioning
Mozart’s reasons
ever since.
One of my favorite bits of
hyperbole on the subject has been....
"Without knowing precisely where we are, we know that we are in an alien universe. Laocoon is in the grip of the writhing serpents. Reality has been defamiliarized, the uncanny has supplanted the commonplace. In this introduction, Mozart has simulated the transitions from darkness to light, from the underworld to the surface, from the id to the ego. For, whatever our metaphoric frame, this music is ultimately about confinement and emergence. And now the Allegro theme emerges soaring and liberated, having already achieved release, transcended the fear of annihilation, freed itself from a burdensome confinement, shed the harmonic ambiguities, chromaticism, and pungent dissonances of the Adagio in favor of the simple brightness of an achieved C major."
--Maynard Solomon in
Mozart: A Life.
Something you would really expect
Metaphysical panbient to drop if he ever heard it.
By the way, for those amongst you who can read music.
http://tinyurl.com/m7nzgk
Anyone interested in the
individual parts of the
instruments or others of the
String Quartets can check here....
http://opensourcemusic.org/?p=26
