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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berger, Karol, 1947-

Series:

Simpson, imprint in humanities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791.

Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750.

Music--18th century--History and criticism.

Music.

Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750--Criticism and interpretation.

Bach, Johann Sebastian.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791--Criticism and interpretation.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xi, 420 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2007]

Summary:

"Karol Berger may have gone further than any other scholar before him--and very successfully so--in teasing out the historicity of music in a way that makes his discoveries convergent with the historicity of other media and art forms. In its argumentative brilliance, Berger's approach enhances our aesthetic pleasure in listening to music."--Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Albert Gué rard Professor in Literature, Stanford University

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-407) and index.

ISBN:

0520250915

9780520250918

OCLC:

71244015