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

Title:
Bach's cycle, Mozart's arrow : an essay on the origins of musical modernity /
Author:
Berger, Karol, 1947-
Published:
Berkeley : c2007.
Format:
Book
Institution:
New England Conservatory
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 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.

Online access:
No online access
Library holdings:
New England Conservatory Spaulding Library
ML195 .B47 2007Available