Transformations of Middleground Hypermeasures in Selected Mozart Keyboard Sonatas

Abstract

analysis of Mozart's music presents some special temporal problems. Classical ideals such as symmetry, balance, and clarity are integral to an understanding of Mozart's works, but these ideals exist within an environment of frequent rhythmic irregularity and asymmetry. Thus the question remains precisely how Mozart could achieve Classical ideals without consistently employing symmetry in his rhythmic organization. Scholars have made numerous observations concerning symmetry and asymmetry in aspects of Mozart's music. For example, Edward Lowinsky described The asymmetry growing out of a perfectly symmetrical conception. . ..' He adds that

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