Music, sexuality and the Enlightenment in Mozart's Figaro, Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte / Charles Ford.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Overtures: Introduction ; Enlightenment as negative freedom ; Enlightened music -- Masculine music: Music of enlightened masculinity ; Angry masculine music ; Libertinage and musical libertinage ; The Enlightenment's legitimation of feelings ; Sensitive masculine music ; Conclusions to part II : the differentiation of masculine music -- Feminine music: Music of enlightened femininity ; Sorrowful feminine music ; Hysterical feminine music ; Music of feminine moral frailty ; The musical ridicule of feminine intentions ; Two maids' and a peasant girl's music ; Conclusions to part III : the differentiation of feminine music -- Seductions: Simple musical seductions ; Complex musical seduction : Fiordiligi and Ferrando -- Finales: Five finales ; Don Giovanni and the stone man ; Kant, Sade and Don Giovanni ; Così fan tutte Act II Finale ; The futures of the operas.

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Music, Sexuality and the Enlightenment explains how Mozart's music for Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte 'sounds' the intentions of Da Ponte's characters and their relationships with one another. Mozart, by way of the infinitely generative and beautiful logic of the sonata principle, did not merely interpret Da Ponte's characterizations but lent them temporal, musical forms. Charles Ford's analytic interpretation of these musical forms concerns processes and structures in detail and at medium- to long-term levels. He addresses the music of a wide range of arias and ensembles.

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