Bach's cycle, Mozart's arrow: an essay on the origins of musical modernity
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Main Author: Berger, Karol (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley University of California Press ©2007
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Item Description:"Simpson, imprint in humanities."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-407) and index
Prelude : L'Orfeo, or the anxiety of the moderns -- Bach's cycle. The arrested procession ; A crystal flying like a bullet ; There is no time like God's time -- Interlude : Jean-Jacques contra Augustinum : a little treatise on moral-political theology -- Mozart's arrow. Mozart at play ; The hidden center ; Between incoherence and inauthenticity : Don Giovanni and Faust ; Die Zauberflöte, or the self-assertion of the moderns -- Postlude : between utopia and melancholy : Beethoven and the aesthetic state
Uses the works of Monteverdi, Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven to support the claims that it was only in the later eighteenth century that music began to take the flow of time from the past to the future seriously
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xi, 420 pages)
ISBN:0520933699
9780520933699

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