I need help with this piano note I found on Mozart Sonata No. 16 in C Major K .545?

Question

Simple, right after the first tril on Mozarts Sonata No. 16 in C Major K .545. There is what looks like a 16th note. The only problem is that the notes are small. Like, they look the same like any normal sixteenth note but smaller.

What does this mean?

Answer 1

These are grace notes. Many are actually the conventional notation of the day, for accented dissonances, and are played as a division of the meter, NOT as a grace note in modern parlance Time to ask your PRIVATE TEACHER . . . .

Answer 2

A grace note is printed in a smaller size than the regular notes. The value of the grace note is not accounted for in the number of beats in the bar. If you count up the beats, not including the unfamiliar notes, and still have a complete measure's worth of beats, then you are definitely looking at a grace note.



Grace notes in Mozart's time were played on the beat. Play it and then move on to the next note. Later during the Romantic period they were played before the beat and have an effect sort of like a hiccup.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_notes

Answer 3

most likely a grace note



could also be a trill note telling you how to play the embellishment.



Ok, i know where i've heard this work before - one of his most famous works!



I'm looking at the Henley Verlag Urtext (i.e. original text) and there's nothing but another trill after the first trill. I'm expecting that you have a copy that has been editited by someone other than a Mozart scholar.

Answer 4

Not much. Mozart is nice to listen to, but doesn't evoke as much emotion as a lot of the romantic composers.