Cherubino's Leap : In Search of the Enlightenment Moment / / Richard Kramer

• Autore: Kramer Richard
• Pubblicazione: Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (241 pages)
• Disciplina: 780.94309033
• Soggetto topico: Music - Germany - 18th century - History and criticism; Music - Austria - 18th century - History and criticism; Enlightenment; Music - 18th century - Philosophy and aesthetics; Music and literature - History - 18th century
• Soggetto non controllato: enlightenment, epiphany, realization, recognition, discovery, art, music, nonfiction, chromatic moment, mozart, haydn, bach, klopstock, prosody, poetry, strophic song, opera, gluck, iphigenie en tauride, cherubino, escape, figaro, konstanze, women, gender, die entfuhrung aus dem serail, lessing, goethe, diderot, beethoven, sonata, silence, audience, affect, performance
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: 2016.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1. The Chromatic Moment in Enlightenment Thought -- 2. The Fugal Moment: On a Few Bars in Mozart's Quintet in C Major, K. 515 -- 3. Hearing the Silence: On a Much-Theorized Moment in a Sonata by Emanuel Bach -- 4. Oden von Klopstock in Musik gesetzt... -- 5. Composing Klopstock: Gluck contra Bach -- 6. Beethoven: In Search of Klopstock -- 7. Anagnorisis: Gluck and the Theater of Recognition -- 8. Cherubino's Leap -- 9. Konstanze's Tears -- Works Cited -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: For the Enlightenment mind, from Moses Mendelssohn's focus on the moment of surprise at the heart of the work of art to Herder's imagining of the seismic moment at which language was discovered, it is the flash of recognition that nails the essence of the work, the blink of an eye in which one's world changes. In Cherubino's Leap, Richard Kramer unmasks such prismatic moments in iconic music from the Enlightenment, from the "chromatic" moment-the single tone that disturbs the thrust of a diatonic musical discourse-and its deployment in seminal instrumental works by Emanuel Bach, Haydn, and Mozart; on to the poetic moment, taking the odes of Klopstock, in their finely wrought prosody, as a challenge to the problem of strophic song; and finally to the grand stage of opera, to the intense moment of recognition in Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride and the exquisitely introverted phrase that complicates Cherubino's daring moment of escape in Mozart's Figaro. Finally, the tears of the disconsolate Konstanze in Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail provoke a reflection on the tragic aspect of Mozart's operatic women. Throughout, other players from literature and the arts-Diderot, Goethe, Lessing among them-enrich the landscape of this bold journey through the Enlightenment imagination.
• Titolo autorizzato: Cherubino's Leap
• ISBN: 0-226-38408-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910136125803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II