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Symphony No. 40 (Mozart), the Glossary

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Academy of Ancient Music

The Academy of Ancient Music (AAM) is a British period-instrument orchestra based in Cambridge, England.

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Accompaniment

Accompaniment is the musical part which provides the rhythmic and/or harmonic support for the melody or main themes of a song or instrumental piece.

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Alfred Einstein

Alfred Einstein (December 30, 1880February 13, 1952) was a German-American musicologist and music editor.

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Anton Paul Stadler (28 June 1753, in Bruck an der Leitha – 15 June 1812, in Vienna) was an Austrian clarinet and basset horn player for whom Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote, amongst others, both his Clarinet Quintet (K 581) and Clarinet Concerto (K 622).

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Antonio Salieri

Antonio Salieri (18 August 17507 May 1825) was an Italian composer and teacher of the classical period.

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Arnold Schoenberg

Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg (13 September 187413 July 1951) was an Austrian and American composer, music theorist, teacher and writer.

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B-flat major

B-flat major is a major scale based on flat, with pitches B, C, D, flat, F, G, and A. Its key signature has two flats.

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Bar (music)

In musical notation, a bar (or measure) is a segment of music bounded by vertical lines, known as bar lines (or barlines), usually indicating one of more recurring beats. The length of the bar, measured by the number of note values it contains, is normally indicated by the time signature.

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Bassoon

The bassoon is a musical instrument in the woodwind family, which plays in the tenor and bass ranges.

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BBC Music Magazine

BBC Music Magazine is a British monthly magazine that focuses primarily on classical music.

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Burgtheater

The Burgtheater (literally: "Castle Theater" but alternatively translated as "(Imperial) Court Theater"), originally known as K.K. Theater an der Burg, then until 1918 as the K.K. Hofburgtheater, is the national theater of Austria in Vienna.

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Charles Rosen

Charles Welles Rosen (May 5, 1927December 9, 2012) was an American pianist and writer on music.

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Christopher Hogwood

Christopher Jarvis Haley Hogwood (10 September 194124 September 2014) was an English conductor, harpsichordist, writer, and musicologist.

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Chromatic scale

The chromatic scale (or twelve-tone scale) is a set of twelve pitches (more completely, pitch classes) used in tonal music, with notes separated by the interval of a semitone.

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Clarinet

The clarinet is a single-reed musical instrument in the woodwind family, with a nearly cylindrical bore and a flared bell.

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Classic FM (UK)

Classic FM (styled as CLASSIC M) is one of the United Kingdom's three Independent National Radio stations and is owned and operated by Global Media & Entertainment (Global).

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Classical period (music)

The Classical Period was an era of classical music between roughly 1750 and 1820.

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Columbia University

Columbia University, officially Columbia University in the City of New York, is a private Ivy League research university in New York City.

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Counterpoint

In music, counterpoint is a method of composition in which two or more musical lines (or voices) are simultaneously played which are harmonically correlated yet independent in rhythm and melodic contour.

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Development (music)

In music, development is a process by which a musical idea is transformed and restated in the course of a composition.

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Donald Tovey

Sir Donald Francis Tovey (17 July 187510 July 1940) was a British musical analyst, musicologist, writer on music, composer, conductor and pianist.

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E-flat major

E-flat major (or the key of E-flat) is a major scale based on flat, consisting of the pitches E, F, G, flat, flat, C, and D. Its key signature has three flats.

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Fairuz

Nouhad Wadie Haddad (Nuhād Wadīʿ Ḥaddād,; born November 21, 1934), known as Fairuz (Fayrūz), is a Lebanese singer.

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Felix Mendelssohn

Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 18094 November 1847), widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period.

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Finale (music)

A finale is the last movement of a sonata, symphony, or concerto; the ending of a piece of non-vocal classical music which has several movements; or, a prolonged final sequence at the end of an act of an opera or work of musical theatre.

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Franz Schubert

Franz Peter Schubert (31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras.

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From All Sides

From All Sides is a collaboration between pianist Vince Guaraldi and guitarist Bola Sete released in February 1965 by Fantasy Records.

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Fulda Symphonic Orchestra

The Fulda Symphonic Orchestra (German: Fuldaer Symphonisches Orchester) is an amateur orchestra based in Fulda, Germany.

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G major

G major (or the key of G) is a major scale based on G, with the pitches G, A, B, C, D, E, and sharp.

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G minor

G minor is a minor scale based on G, consisting of the pitches G, A, flat, C, D, Eflat, and F. Its key signature has two flats. Symphony No. 40 (Mozart) and g minor are compositions in G minor.

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Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde

The, also known as the (German for 'Viennese Music Association'), is an Austrian music organization that was founded in 1812 by Beethoven’s friend Joseph Sonnleithner, general secretary of the Court Theatre in Vienna, Austria.

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Gottfried van Swieten

Gottfried Freiherr van Swieten (29 October 1733 – 29 March 1803) was a Dutch-born Austrian diplomat, librarian, and government official who served the Holy Roman Empire during the 18th century.

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Gustav Nottebohm

Martin Gustav Nottebohm (12 November 1817 – 29 October 1882) was a German musicologist, teacher and composer who spent most of his career in Vienna.

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Hemiola

In music, hemiola (also hemiolia) is the ratio 3:2.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.

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Johann Stadler

Johann Nepomuk Stadler (6 May 1755, Bruck an der Leitha – 2 May 1804, Vienna) was an Austrian clarinet and basset horn player and younger brother of the clarinet player Anton Stadler.

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Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms (7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor of the mid-Romantic period.

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Joseph Haydn

Franz Joseph Haydn (31 March 173231 May 1809) was an Austrian composer of the Classical period.

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Köchel catalogue

The Köchel catalogue (Köchel-Verzeichnis) is a chronological catalogue of compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, originally created by Ludwig Ritter von Köchel, in which the entries are abbreviated K. or KV.

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Key (music)

In music theory, the key of a piece is the group of pitches, or scale, that forms the basis of a musical composition in Western classical music, art music, and pop music.

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List of symphonies by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

This is a list of symphonies by the classical composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Symphony No. 40 (Mozart) and list of symphonies by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart are symphonies by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

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Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist.

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Mannheim school

Mannheim school refers to both the orchestral techniques pioneered by the court orchestra of the Elector Palatine in Mannheim in the latter half of the 18th century and the group of composers of the early classical period, who composed for the orchestra of Mannheim.

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Michael Lorenz (musicologist)

Michael Lorenz (born 18 July 1958) is an Austrian musicologist, noted as a Mozart scholar and for his archival work combining music history and genealogical research.

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Michael von Puchberg

Johann Michael von Puchberg (September 21, 1741, Zwettl, Lower Austria – January 21, 1822, Vienna) was a textile merchant who lived in Vienna in the 18th and early 19th centuries.

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Minuet

A minuet (also spelled menuet) is a social dance of French origin for two people, usually in 4 time.

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Modulation (music)

In music, modulation is the change from one tonality (tonic, or tonal center) to another.

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Movement (music)

A movement is a self-contained part of a musical composition or musical form.

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Mozart and G minor

G minor has been considered the key through which Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart best expressed sadness and tragedy, and many of his minor key works are in G minor. Symphony No. 40 (Mozart) and Mozart and G minor are compositions in G minor.

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Mozart symphonies of spurious or doubtful authenticity

This list of Mozart symphonies of spurious or doubtful authenticity contains 39 symphonic works whose initial attribution to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has subsequently been proved spurious, or is the subject of continuing doubt. Symphony No. 40 (Mozart) and Mozart symphonies of spurious or doubtful authenticity are symphonies by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

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Mozart's Berlin journey

One of the longest adulthood journeys of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a visit, beginning in spring 1789, to a series of cities lying northward of his adopted home in Vienna: Prague, Leipzig, Dresden, and Berlin.

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Natural horn

The natural horn is a musical instrument that is the predecessor to the modern-day (French) horn (differentiated by its lack of valves).

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Neal Zaslaw

Neal Zaslaw (born June 28, 1939) is an American musicologist.

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Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Johann Nikolaus Harnoncourt (6 December 1929 – 5 March 2016) was an Austrian conductor, known for his historically informed performances.

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Oboe

The oboe is a type of double-reed woodwind instrument.

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Opera buffa

Opera buffa ("comic opera";: opere buffe) is a genre of opera.

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Otto Biba

Otto Biba (born 9 August 1946) is an Austrian musicologist and archive director of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna.

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Otto Erich Deutsch

Otto Erich Deutsch (5 September 1883 – 23 November 1967) was an Austrian musicologist.

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Phrase (music)

In music theory, a phrase (φράση) is a unit of musical meter that has a complete musical sense of its own, built from figures, motifs, and cells, and combining to form melodies, periods and larger sections.

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Public domain

The public domain (PD) consists of all the creative work to which no exclusive intellectual property rights apply.

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Relative key

In music, relative keys are the major and minor scales that have the same key signatures (enharmonically equivalent), meaning that they share all of the same notes but are arranged in a different order of whole steps and half steps.

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Rhythm

Rhythm (from Greek ῥυθμός, rhythmos, "any regular recurring motion, symmetry") generally means a "movement marked by the regulated succession of strong and weak elements, or of opposite or different conditions".

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Robert Schumann

Robert Schumann (8 June 181029 July 1856) was a German composer, pianist, and music critic of the early Romantic era.

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Romantic music

Romantic music is a stylistic movement in Western Classical music associated with the period of the 19th century commonly referred to as the Romantic era (or Romantic period).

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Sergei Rachmaninoff

Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff (28 March 1943) was a Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor.

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String section

The string section is composed of bowed instruments belonging to the violin family.

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Subdominant

In music, the subdominant is the fourth tonal degree of the diatonic scale.

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Subject (music)

In music, a subject is the material, usually a recognizable melody, upon which part or all of a composition is based.

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Symphony No. 25 (Mozart)

The Symphony No. Symphony No. 40 (Mozart) and Symphony No. 25 (Mozart) are compositions in G minor and symphonies by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

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Symphony No. 39 (Mozart)

The Symphony No. Symphony No. 40 (Mozart) and Symphony No. 39 (Mozart) are 1788 compositions and symphonies by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

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Symphony No. 41 (Mozart)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completed his Symphony No. Symphony No. 40 (Mozart) and Symphony No. 41 (Mozart) are 1788 compositions and symphonies by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

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Symphony No. 5 (Schubert)

Franz Schubert's Symphony No.

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Symphony, K. 16a (Mozart)

The Symphony in A minor "Odense", K. Anh. Symphony No. 40 (Mozart) and Symphony, K. 16a (Mozart) are symphonies by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

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The Classical Style

The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven is a book by the American pianist and author Charles Rosen.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Seasons (Haydn)

The Seasons (German: Die Jahreszeiten, Hob. XXI:3) is a secular oratorio by Joseph Haydn, first performed in 1801.

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Tonic (music)

In music, the tonic is the first scale degree of the diatonic scale (the first note of a scale) and the tonal center or final resolution tone that is commonly used in the final cadence in tonal (musical key-based) classical music, popular music, and traditional music.

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Tonkünstler-Societät

The Tonkünstler-Societät ("Society of Musicians") was a benevolent society for musicians in Vienna, which lasted from the mid-18th century to the mid-20th.

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Triad (music)

In music, a triad is a set of three notes (or "pitch classes") that can be stacked vertically in thirds.

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Victor Talking Machine Company

The Victor Talking Machine Company was an American recording company and phonograph manufacturer, incorporated in 1901.

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Vince Guaraldi

Vincent Anthony Guaraldi (né Dellaglio, July 17, 1928 – February 6, 1976) was an American jazz pianist best known for composing music for animated television adaptations of the Peanuts comic strip.

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Viola

The viola is a string instrument that is usually bowed.

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Violin Concerto (Mendelssohn)

Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64, MWV O 14, is his last concerto.

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Walter B. Rogers

Walter Bowman Rogers (October 14, 1865 – December 24, 1939) was an American cornet player, concert band and orchestral conductor and composer, who was responsible for most of the orchestral arrangements on recordings made for the Victor Talking Machine Company between 1904 and 1916.

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Western concert flute

The Western concert flute is a family of transverse (side-blown) woodwind instruments made of metal or wood.

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Wind instrument

A wind instrument is a musical instrument that contains some type of resonator (usually a tube) in which a column of air is set into vibration by the player blowing into (or over) a mouthpiece set at or near the end of the resonator.

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 17565 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._40_(Mozart)

Also known as G Minor Symphony, Great G minor symphony, K 550, K. 550, KV 550, KV. 550, Mozart 40, Mozart's Fortieth Symphony, Mozart's Symphony no. 40, Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, Symphony in G minor, No. 40.

, Mozart's Berlin journey, Natural horn, Neal Zaslaw, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Oboe, Opera buffa, Otto Biba, Otto Erich Deutsch, Phrase (music), Public domain, Relative key, Rhythm, Robert Schumann, Romantic music, Sergei Rachmaninoff, String section, Subdominant, Subject (music), Symphony No. 25 (Mozart), Symphony No. 39 (Mozart), Symphony No. 41 (Mozart), Symphony No. 5 (Schubert), Symphony, K. 16a (Mozart), The Classical Style, The Guardian, The Seasons (Haydn), Tonic (music), Tonkünstler-Societät, Triad (music), Victor Talking Machine Company, Vince Guaraldi, Viola, Violin Concerto (Mendelssohn), Walter B. Rogers, Western concert flute, Wind instrument, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

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