An overture to Così fan tutte: the poetics of the opera over two centuries -- The philosophical mode -- The pastoral mode -- The comic mode.
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This is the first full-length, scholarly study of what is widely regarded as Mozart's most enigmatic opera and Lorenzo Da Ponte's most erudite text. Against the long-standing judgment that the opera uses a misguided confidence in reason to traduce feeling, Goehring's study shows how Così affirms comedy's regenerative powers and its capacity to grant access to modes of sympathy and understanding that are otherwise inaccessible. In making this argument, Three Modes of Perception in Mozart surveys a rich literary, operatic, and intellectual territory. This monograph offers a new perspective on the relationships between text and tone in opera, on the tension between comedy and philosophy and its representation in stage works, and on the pastoral mode, which the opera uses in especially subtle ways. Throughout, Goehring's argument is sustained by close readings of primary sources, many of them little known, and is richly illustrated with musical examples.--Publisher description.
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Three modes of perception in Mozart.
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0521838819
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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus,1756-1791., Così fan tutte.
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791, Così fan tutte