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David Runnion wrote:
>Say, I was thinking in a rehearsal yesterday, if it's ok to eliminate
>repeats in a Beethoven symphony, would it be ok to add a repeat in a Mozart
>trio? We're working on the K. 542, E major. I find every bar, every note,
>breathtakingly beautiful. Listen to the three-bar canon segment in the
>strings in the middle of the slow movement.
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>Sadly, the recapitulation of the first movement lacks a
>repeat sign. I'd sort of like to repeat it.
Your wish is granted. According to the NMA, there is a repeat sign given
at the head of and the end of the recap.
>Could this be a printers' error?
Most likely depending on what edition you are using.
Joel Lazar wrote:
>David, that late in Mozart's oeuvre I would think that a "second repeat"
>in a sonata-form first movement would be somewhat rare--it's not there
>in Symphony No. 39, K. 543, for instance or in the "Jupiter"...
You are correct.
Genereally speaking, Mozart used the recap repeat less often in his late
works, but there *is*, for example, a repeat of the recap indicated in the
last movement of the Jupiter.
Mark K. Ehlert
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