Bach's cycle, Mozart's arrow : an essay on the origins of musical modernity /

Berger, Karol, 1947-

Bach's cycle, Mozart's arrow : an essay on the origins of musical modernity / Karol Berger. - Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2007. - 1 online resource (xi, 420 pages) : illustrations, music - A Simpson book in the humanities . - Simpson, imprint in humanities. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-407) and index.

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.

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.

9780520933699 (electronic bk.) 0520933699 (electronic bk.) 9780520250918 (cloth ; alk. paper) 0520250915 (cloth ; alk. paper) (pbk.) (pbk.)

22573/cttsx29z JSTOR

2021696938


Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750 --Criticism and interpretation.
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791 --Criticism and interpretation.
Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750.
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791.


1700-1799


Music--History and criticism.--18th century
Musique--Histoire et critique.--18e siècle
MUSIC--History & Criticism.
MUSIC--Genres & Styles--Classical.
Music.


Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

ML195 / .B47 2007eb

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