... simply by varying the pressure placed on the keys by the player. By the end of the Classical, nearly all composers were composing for the piano rather than the harpsichord, clavichord or organ. The Classical period was also the end of the Basso Continuo. This was mainly due to ... halfway through and then slides into B flat major. After this the second subject moves through a range of minor keys before returning to D major for the recapitulation that begins in bar 193. The recapitulation seems normal with the second subject staying in the D major tonic key all the way through ... the ha...

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... damp - before the musicians. That is why Mozart could state after the first night that somehow or other a few of the notes "had fallen under the desks-. As to the music it is obvious that Mozart uses characteristic keys. The listener connects certain keys ... combined tragic and comic elements, seduction and passion into a unity. He depicts individual scenes quite accurately, without propagating naturalistic "sound pictures-. The opera as a whole goes for more than three hours, with the overture lasting about 6-7 minutes. The orchestra consists of 2 flutes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 ho...

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