tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10680113.post8716047245042348663..comments2024-03-23T11:40:13.092-05:00Comments on Musical Assumptions: Mozart on the PianoElaine Finehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14248422399226824168noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10680113.post-67685735287208068032021-11-07T04:09:50.004-06:002021-11-07T04:09:50.004-06:00Interesting response. While we can never know abou...Interesting response. While we can never know about Mozart, your "to my mind" and mine differ, proving perhaps that conceptualizing musically is not a wholly similar mental module across the small population of those who compose. Best wishes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10680113.post-29264394104607009722021-11-06T13:07:11.667-05:002021-11-06T13:07:11.667-05:00I equate keyboard with either piano, harpsichord, ...I equate keyboard with either piano, harpsichord, fortepiano, clavichord, or organ. Because of the way he uses voicing and register in his keyboard music, I do believe he thought about the physicality of the keyboard while writing for it. Even if he didn’t need to be sitting at one while writing. Also, I think of a keyboard as an instrument where all five fingers of both hands are engaged in the process of pressing or hitting keys, unlike a mallet instrument where the fingers do not relate directly to the pitches that result from keys plucking strings, causing hammers to strike keys, or causing air to travel through pipes. Accordion would be a modified keyboard, but a bandoneon, which has only buttons, would, to my mind, not be a keyboard.Elaine Finehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14248422399226824168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10680113.post-13337536881574858992021-11-06T12:31:12.224-05:002021-11-06T12:31:12.224-05:00I for one do not understand the notion of an instr...I for one do not understand the notion of an instrument as a "mother tongue," perhaps because I never settled on one. To some colleagues I'd mentioned a "keyboard" in a conversation, and they all interpreted it as a piano keyboard. But is it not true that the fret board, the keys on a woodwind, the valves and their relationship to pressure as well as, say a lute, guitar or viola da gamba, are ALL keyboards? Just different shapes? Just of a different sort? Perhaps this perturbation in my interior dictionary is at fault? Or perhaps the seeming hegemony of piano, cembalo and organ keyboards is at fault? The keyboard on which I most often think is a set of lines and spaces. Given Mozart's writing for strings and singers as examples, I cannot imagine he thought "on a keyboard." What say you? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com