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

Abstract

List of Illustrations Introduction PRELUDE. L'Orfeo, or the Anxiety of the Moderns PART I. BACH'S CYCLE 1. The Arrested Procession Appendix: St. Matthew Passion, opening chorus, full score 2. A Crystal Flying Like a Bullet 3. There Is No Time Like God's Time INTERLUDE. Jean-Jacques contra Augustinum: A Little Treatise on Moral-Political Theology Augustine The Birth of Autonomy Rousseau The Christian and Modern Outlooks Compared The Emancipation of Time From Cosmos to History PART II. MOZART'S ARROW 4. Mozart at Play 5. The Hidden Center 6. Between Incoherence and Inauthenticity: Don Giovanni and Faust 7. Die Zauberflote, or the Self-Assertion of the Moderns POSTLUDE. Between Utopia and Melancholy: Beethoven and the Aesthetic State Acknowledgments Notes Works Cited Index

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