Coming to Terms with Our Musical Past: An Essay on Mozart and Modernist Aesthetics
- Author: Goehring, Edmund Joseph
Exhaustively researched and documented . . . [this book] considers such concepts as intention, ambiguity, mimesis, chance, and necessity -- each with its own chapter -- in the light of modernist... — More…
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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?
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index