| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 420 pages) : illustrations, music |
| Series |
A Simpson book in the humanities |
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Simpson, imprint in humanities
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| 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 |
| Summary |
Uses the works of Monteverdi, Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven to support the claims that it was only in the later eighteenth century that music began to take the flow of time from the past to the future seriously |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-407) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750 fast |
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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791 fast |
| Subject |
Music -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
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MUSIC -- History & Criticism.
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MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Classical.
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Music
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021696938 |
| ISBN |
9780520933699 |
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0520933699 |
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9780520250918 |
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0520250915 |
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