Bach's cycle, Mozart's arrow : an essay on the origins of musical modernity /

Main Author: Berger, Karol, 1947-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, c2007.
Series:Simpson, imprint in humanities
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Table of Contents:
  • 'L'Orfeo', or the anxiety of the moderns
  • The arrested procession
  • A crystal flying like a bullet
  • There is no time like God's time
  • Jean-Jacques contra Augustinum : a little treatise on moral-political theology
  • Mozart at play
  • The hidden center
  • Between incoherence and inauthenticity : Don Giovanni and Faust
  • 'Die Zauberflöte', or the self - assertion of the moderns
  • Between utopia and melancholy : Beethoven and the aesthetic state.