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Record Nr.

UNINA9910743210703321

Autore

Goehring Edmund Joseph

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Rochester, NY : , : University of Rochester Press, , 2018

ISBN

1-78744-284-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 209 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Eastman studies in music ; ; v. 147

Disciplina

780.92

Soggetti

Music - Philosophy and aesthetics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Apr 2021).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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?.

Sommario/riassunto

A bold, restorative vision of Mozart's works, and Western art music generally, as manifestations of an idealism rooted in the sociable nature of humans.