Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-407) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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.
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Title
Bach's cycle, Mozart's arrow.
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9780520250918
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Bach, Johann Sebastian,1685-1750-- Criticism and interpretation.
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus,1756-1791-- Criticism and interpretation.