Music, sexuality and the Enlightenment in Mozart's Figaro, Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte
By: Charles Ford
Publisher: Ashgate; Ashgate Pub Co
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Burlington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780754668893; 9781409442363
Subjects: Opera; Sex in music
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Overtures: Introduction ; Enlightenment as negative freedom ; Enlightened music; title: Masculine music: Music of enlightened masculinity ; Angry masculine music ; Libertinage and musical libertinage ; The Enlightenment's legitimation of feelings ; Sensitive masculine music ; Conclusions to part II : the differentiation of masculine music; title: Feminine music: Music of enlightened femininity ; Sorrowful feminine music ; Hysterical feminine music ; Music of feminine moral frailty ; The musical ridicule of feminine intentions ; Two maids' and a peasant girl's music ; Conclusions to part III : the differentiation of feminine music; title: Seductions: Simple musical seductions ; Complex musical seduction : Fiordiligi and Ferrando; title: Finales: Five finales ; Don Giovanni and the stone man ; Kant, Sade and Don Giovanni ; Così fan tutte Act II Finale ; The futures of the operas.