Musicon / Classical Music / The movements of a symphony

The movements of a symphony

Posted on the May 8th, 2009 under Classical Music

Symphonies’ First movements are quick and energetic, and frequently full of dramatic fire. In them the psychological story is begun which is to be developed in the remaining chapters of the work–its sorrows, hopes, prayers, or communings in the slow movement; its madness or merriment ::More

Musicon / Mozart / Bernard Williams: Mozart changed our thinking on Don Juan

Bernard Williams: Mozart changed our thinking on Don Juan

Posted on the February 16th, 2009 under Mozart

Later writers have not simply gone back to some archetype of Don Juan, or taken Mozart’s opera merely as one previous embodiment of that character, but have in many cases been quite specially influenced by the opera. Indeed, nineteenth- and twentieth- century thoughts about Don Juan have been ::More