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MTO 23.1 Examples: Palmer, Humorous Script Oppositions in Classical Instrumental Music

This document discusses how classical instrumental music can convey humor through the use of script oppositions, where musical ideas are presented in an unexpected or contradictory way. It provides musical examples from works by Mozart, Haydn, and Michael Haydn to illustrate different types of script oppositions, including jokes, emotional contrasts, and variations in social status. Diagrams and analyses describe the narrative scripts and humorous effects created by the musical contradictions in each example.

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MTO 23.1 Examples: Palmer, Humorous Script Oppositions in Classical Instrumental Music

This document discusses how classical instrumental music can convey humor through the use of script oppositions, where musical ideas are presented in an unexpected or contradictory way. It provides musical examples from works by Mozart, Haydn, and Michael Haydn to illustrate different types of script oppositions, including jokes, emotional contrasts, and variations in social status. Diagrams and analyses describe the narrative scripts and humorous effects created by the musical contradictions in each example.

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MTO 23.

1 Examples: Palmer, Humorous Script Oppositions in Classical Instrumental


Music

(Note: audio, video, and other interactive examples are only available online)
http://www.mtosmt.org/issues/mto.17.23.1/mto.17.23.1.palmer.php

Example 1. Mozarts Ein musikalischer Spa, K. 522, iii, mm. 7278


Example 2. Haydns Symphony no. 60, i, mm. 6786
Figure 1. Fish tank joke text script oppositions

Figure 2. Typical opposition


Figure 3. Emotional valence and social status conveyed by musical topics

Example 3a. Haydns Symphony no. 60, iii, mm. 3948


Figure 4. Haydns Symphony no. 60, iii script oppositions
Example 3b. Haydns Symphony no. 60, iii, mm. 4971
Example 4. Haydns String Quartet op. 33 no. 2, iv, mm. 148153

Figure 5. Haydns Symphony no. 60, iii script oppositions


Example 5. Haydns Symphony no. 60, vi, mm. 136
Figure 6. Haydns Symphony no. 60, vi script oppositions
Example 6. Michael Haydns Symphony in D major, Perger 13, iii, mm. 7883
(audio begins 10 seconds before notated example)
Figure 7. Michael Haydns Symphony in D, iii script oppositions
Example 7. Mozarts Serenade in D major K. 250, i, mm. 26783
Figure 8. Mozart Serenade in D major, K. 250, i script oppositions

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