| Series |
Simpson, imprint in humanities
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| 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 note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-407) and index. |
| LCCN | 2006029140 |
| ISBN | 0520250915 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780520250918 (cloth : alk. paper) |
