LEADER 03562nam 2200637 a 450 001 9910786499303321 005 20211102021406.0 010 $a1-283-80433-6 010 $a1-4008-4511-4 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400845118 035 $a(CKB)2670000000276736 035 $a(EBL)1042907 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000756399 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11438593 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000756399 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10751309 035 $a(PQKB)10658171 035 $a(OCoLC)820785237 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse43464 035 $a(DE-B1597)453845 035 $a(OCoLC)979742309 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400845118 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1042907 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10624604 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL411683 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1042907 035 $a(dli)HEB32760 035 $a(MiU) MIU01100000000000000000386 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000276736 100 $a20120724d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMozart's grace$b[electronic resource] /$fScott Burnham 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc2013 215 $a1 online resource (204 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 00$a0-691-16806-7 311 0 $a0-691-00910-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --$tINVITATION --$tI. BEAUTY AND GRACE --$tII. THRESHOLDS --$tIII. GRACE AND RENEWAL --$tKNOWING INNOCENCE --$tNOTES --$tBIBLIOGRAPHY --$tINDEX 330 $aIt is a common article of faith that Mozart composed the most beautiful music we can know. But few of us ask why. Why does the beautiful in Mozart stand apart, as though untouched by human hands? At the same time, why does it inspire intimacy rather than distant admiration, love rather than awe? And how does Mozart's music create and sustain its buoyant and ever-renewable effects? In Mozart's Grace, Scott Burnham probes a treasury of passages from many different genres of Mozart's music, listening always for the qualities of Mozartean beauty: beauty held in suspension; beauty placed in motion; beauty as the uncanny threshold of another dimension, whether inwardly profound or outwardly transcendent; and beauty as a time-stopping, weightless suffusion that comes on like an act of grace. Throughout the book, Burnham engages musical issues such as sonority, texture, line, harmony, dissonance, and timing, and aspects of large-scale form such as thematic returns, retransitions, and endings. Vividly describing a range of musical effects, Burnham connects the ways and means of Mozart's music to other domains of human significance, including expression, intimation, interiority, innocence, melancholy, irony, and renewal. We follow Mozart from grace to grace, and discover what his music can teach us about beauty and its relation to the human spirit. The result is a newly inflected view of our perennial attraction to Mozart's music, presented in a way that will speak to musicians and music lovers alike. 606 $aBIOGRAPHY &$xAUTOBIOGRAPHY$vComposers &$xMusicians 615 0$aBIOGRAPHY &$xAUTOBIOGRAPHY$xMusicians. 676 $a780.92 700 $aBurnham$b Scott G$01015599 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786499303321 996 $aMozart's grace$92372241 997 $aUNINA