Did Mozart write any through-composed music?
Would you consider the finale to Don Giovanni "Don Giovanni a cenar teco m'invitasti e son venuto" to be through-composed?
Other then question and answer type phrases it doesn't repeat any music (and cm'on give him a break he's still a classical composer), he repeats the "ah padron, ah padron, ah padron" three times, but each "ah padron" starts on a different degree of the scale, he repeats "Dite di no!" twice, but I still don't think that counts if you consider the whole thing as a single phrase...
and it has such a different feel than most other mozart arias and ensembles... it doesn't seem to me to be a "numbers" piece. it doesn't have that ok we're gonna go through this to get the melody out there... then we can worry bout the drama/repeats/etc.etc.etc later.... it seems to be a lets get down to buziness plot advancing aria....
Why don't people include this as an example of Mozart's contribution to through-composed music?
nowdays as popular as mozart is, practically every wikipedia article on music has a paragraph or two about how he contributed to that (whatever topic it is xyz etc etc etc).
What do you all think? Essentially, is there really something else that I'm missing that Wagner's music has that Don Giovanni a cenar teco m'invitasti e son venuto doesn't?
Would you consider the finale to Don Giovanni "Don Giovanni a cenar teco m'invitasti e son venuto" to be through-composed?
Other then question and answer type phrases it doesn't repeat any music (and cm'on give him a break he's still a classical composer), he repeats the "ah padron, ah padron, ah padron" three times, but each "ah padron" starts on a different degree of the scale, he repeats "Dite di no!" twice, but I still don't think that counts if you consider the whole thing as a single phrase...
and it has such a different feel than most other mozart arias and ensembles... it doesn't seem to me to be a "numbers" piece. it doesn't have that ok we're gonna go through this to get the melody out there... then we can worry bout the drama/repeats/etc.etc.etc later.... it seems to be a lets get down to buziness plot advancing aria....
Why don't people include this as an example of Mozart's contribution to through-composed music?
nowdays as popular as mozart is, practically every wikipedia article on music has a paragraph or two about how he contributed to that (whatever topic it is xyz etc etc etc).
What do you all think? Essentially, is there really something else that I'm missing that Wagner's music has that Don Giovanni a cenar teco m'invitasti e son venuto doesn't?
