Coming to terms with our musical past : an essay on Mozart and modernist aesthetics / Edmund J. Goehring.

For over a generation now, many leading performers, critics, and scholars of Mozart's music have taken a rejection of transcendence as axiomatic. This essentially modernist, antiromantic orientation attempts to neutralize the sorts of aesthetic experiences that presuppose an enchantment with Mo...

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Main Author: Goehring, Edmund Joseph (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2018.
Series:Eastman studies in music ; v. 147.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: setting the stage, and then exiting it
  • On critique; or, two paths through the art-critical world
  • On transcendence; or, Mozart among the neoplatonists, present and past
  • On intention
  • On being
  • On chance and necessity
  • On ambiguity
  • On mimesis
  • On pleasure
  • On concepts and culture
  • The flaws in the finale
  • Conclusion: an other modernism?