Bach's cycle, Mozart's arrow : an essay on the origins of musical modernity / Karol Berger.
Bach's cycle, Mozart's arrow : an essay on the origins of musical modernity / Karol Berger.
Bach's cycle, Mozart's arrow : an essay on the origins of musical modernity / Karol Berger.
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Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007.
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N780.9033/13
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English
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xi, 420 p. : music ; 24 cm.
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 c...
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Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007.
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California
Date Published
c2007.
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But after the shift, as he finds in looking at Mozart's Don Giovanni, the experience of linear time is transformed into music's essential subject matter; the cycle of time unbends and becomes an arrow. Berger complements his wide-ranging musical case studies with a rich survey of the philosophical, theological, and literary trends influencing artis...
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Bach's cycle, Mozart's arrow : an essay on the origins of musical modernity / Karol Berger.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N780.9033/13
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74VKzOeLKpyg
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9780520250918 (cloth : alk. paper)
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780.9033
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991023423569702626
