| Description |
xi, 420 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Note |
"Simpson, imprint in humanities." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-407) and index. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Music -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
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Music. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
| Subject |
Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791. |
| ISBN |
9780520250918 cloth alkaline paper |
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0520250915 cloth alkaline paper |
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