The Viennese Period

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The Viennese Period
W H William Henry Hadow
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Yet it would be erroneous to suppose that either of them in any real sense dominated the other. Each maintains through- out his own individuality of character, his own sense of beauty and fitness : their mutual debt was no more than that of Addison and Steele, the intercommunication of a method which each could employ for his appropriate end. Their most dis- tinctive tunes are not more widely dissimilar than are their 254 THE VIENNESE PERIOD ideas of humour, of pathos, of the whole emotional ra
...nge which it is one function of music to express. But in their treatment of the instrumental forms we can trace, in some measure, the working of a common purpose, and this it now follows that we should consider in detail.
It has already been said that from 1781 the main structural outlines remain unchanged until the time of Beethoven. The number of movements, their general character, their schemes of key-relationship were uniformly accepted by a working convention, and the composer claimed little option except to determine how often he should employ the ^ three-canto ^ form, and whether the minuet should follow or precede the adagio.


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