Classical Instrumental Romance in Mozart and Beethoven’s Music. Genre – Structure – Themе Relation Cover Image

Класическият инструментален романс в творчеството на Моцарт и Бетовен. Съотношение жанр – структура – тема
Classical Instrumental Romance in Mozart and Beethoven’s Music. Genre – Structure – Themе Relation

Author(s): Snezhina Vrangova
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Music
Published by: Издателство НМА „Проф. Панчо Владигеров”
Keywords: instrumental romance; topos; rondo; romance style

Summary/Abstract: Via classical style, the romance – a genre intrinsically connected to the word – gets extrapolated to the sphere of instrumental music. The process of stabilization of classical romance’s features is connected to Mozart and Beethoven’s music, therefore, also to the concert and chamber-ensemble tradition. For Mozart, the romance is a topos (according to Kirilina) of a lyrical, cyclic movement (in a serenade and a concert), while Beethoven’s vision directly adapts this genre’s single part chamber-vocal form towards the concert (“Romances for Violin”, op. 40 and op. 50). Gradually, the romance forms extremely stable structural features (becoming a rondo), also regarding thematism, language, imagery and emotional nature. Via the progression from Mozart to Beethoven’s tradition, comes the formation of romance style: tradition derived by acquisition of older models.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 7
  • Page Range: 114-127
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Bulgarian