Bach's cycle, Mozart's arrow
Subtitle: an essay on the origins of musical modernity
By: Karol Berger.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9780520250918
Subjects: Bach, Johann Sebastian, -- 1685-1750 -- Criticism and interpretation; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, -- 1756-1791 -- Criticism and interpretation; Music -- 18th century -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 393-407) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prelude : L'Orfeo, or the anxiety of the moderns; title: Bach's cycle. The arrested procession ; A crystal flying like a bullet ; There is no time like God's time; title: Interlude : Jean-Jacques contra Augustinum : a little treatise on moral-political theology; title: 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; title: Postlude : between utopia and melancholy : Beethoven and the aesthetic state.