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

Author/creator Berger, Karol, 1947-
Format Book
Publication InfoBerkeley : University of California Press, ©2007.
Descriptionxi, 420 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750--Criticism and interpretation.
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791--Criticism and interpretation.
Music--18th century. --History and criticism.

SeriesSimpson, imprint in humanities
Contents L'Orfeo, or the anxiety of the moderns -- Part I. Bach's cycle. The arrested procession. St. matthew passion, opening chorus, full score -- A crystal flying like a bullet ; There is no time like God's time -- Interlude. ean-Jacques contra Augustinum : a little treatise on moral-political theology ; Augustine ; The birth of autonomy ; Rousseau ; The Christian and modern outlooks compared ; The emancipation of time ; From cosmos to history -- Part II. Mozart's arrow. Mozart at play ; The hidden center ; Between incoherence and inauthenticity : Don Giovanni and Faust ; Die zauberflote, or the self-assertion of the moderns -- Between utopia and melancholy : Beethoven and the aesthetic state.
Abstract The author uses the works of Monteverdi, Bach, Mozart and Beethoven to support two claims: first that it was only in the later 18th century that music began to take the flow of time from the past to the future seriously; and second that this change in structure was an aspect of a larger transformation towards modernity.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 393-407) and index.
LCCN 2006029140
ISBN0520250915 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780520250918 (cloth : alk. paper)

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