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The Horn In Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5, Op. 64: An Introduction To The Horn In Late Nineteenth Century Russia, David S. Hall May 2019

The Horn In Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5, Op. 64: An Introduction To The Horn In Late Nineteenth Century Russia, David S. Hall

Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects

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An Intricate Simplicity: Contraries As An Evocation Of The Sublime In Mozart’S Jupiter Symphony, K. 551, Emily Michelle Wuchner May 2011

An Intricate Simplicity: Contraries As An Evocation Of The Sublime In Mozart’S Jupiter Symphony, K. 551, Emily Michelle Wuchner

Masters Theses

This thesis explores the eighteenth-century aesthetic of the sublime in application to Mozart’s Symphony No. 41 Jupiter, K. 551. Using Immanuel Kant’s definition of the mathematical sublime and Johan Georg Sulzer’s idea of the sublime, I argue that Mozart achieves this aesthetic through the synthesis of stylistic opposites: the learned and the galant. The culmination of such is best articulated in the fugue found in the Coda of the fourth movement. In this segment, Mozart combines five galant motives into a learned fugue; this intricate combination of stylistic opposites creates an elevated effect, one in keeping with eighteenth-century philosophies …