Mozart 23 Concerto in A major

Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major In my introduction to music class we were assigned to listen and evaluate a particular piece of music in order to reflect on our unique individuality. For my project I chose Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756-1791 and his work of the piano concerto No. 23 in A Major specifically the second movement that was created in 1786. In addition to listening, the piece must be broken down and organized into themes or motives. By the end of the project we should be able to provide an “aesthetic blueprint” of the work by using vocabulary terms that we have learned over the course of the semester.
The piano concerto was written in the classical period that lasted from 1750 to 1820. Without knowing the year that this piece was made there are many other characteristics of this piece that are from the classical period. For example the contrast of mood; throughout the three movements there are countless mood changes as a result of the sonata and rondo forms and the use of minuet and trio. Also the heavy use of the piano was popular in the classical period while it replaced the harpsichord that was mainly used in the Baroque period of 1600 to 1750. The first day that I decided to listen to the full piece was November 9nth, at 8:03pm. In my listening diary I wrote that I liked the rapid flow the piece had in the beginning. Although this rapid or allegro pace is expected in a concerto because of its arrangement of three movements that illustrate the order of fast-slow-fast, it was amusing to listen to it played on the piano. I also noticed that the piece had the occasional hint of melancholy but was lost with the return of the more luminous theme that the movement originally began. I also admire this piece because it reminds me of a couple of my favorite movies. The two that I can think of are Man on Fire, and Cinderella Man. The reason that these particular movies come to

Cited: Kamien, Roger. Music: an Appreciation. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2011. Print.