Bach’s Cycle, Mozart’s Arrow: An Essay on the Origins of Musical Modernity"Karol Berger may have gone further than any other scholar before him—and very successfully so—in teasing out the historicity of music in a way that makes his discoveries convergent with the historicity of other media and art forms. In its argumentative brilliance, Berger's approach enhances our aesthetic pleasure in listening to music."—Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Albert Guérard Professor in Literature, Stanford University "This is a major work by a major scholar. Berger is unique; there is something uncanny about his powers of synthesis and his quality of insight. No one else can relate, as he does, the closest technical analysis of music to the broadest questions of philosophy."—Richard Taruskin, author of The Oxford History of Western Music "This book is an event. The musical styles of Bach and Mozart are admirably contrasted to illustrate an epochal shift in the cultural construction of time occurring around 1750. Berger combines careful musical analysis with grand perspectives on the plane of cultural theory and the history of ideas. The intellectual world has long been waiting for musicology to open up to the "cultural turn" that other disciplines of the humanities took long ago: here is a book which can serve as a model."—Jan Assmann author of Die Zauberflöte: Oper und Mysterium |
What people are saying - Write a review
We haven't found any reviews in the usual places.
Contents
List of Illustrations | 1 |
prelude | 19 |
The Arrested Procession | 45 |
A Crystal Flying Like a Bullet | 89 |
There Is No Time Like Gods Time | 102 |
interlude | 131 |
The Birth of Autonomy | 142 |
Rousseau | 148 |
From Cosmos to History | 172 |
Mozart at Play | 179 |
The Hidden Center | 199 |
Die Zauberflöte or the SelfAssertion of the Moderns | 280 |
postlude | 293 |
Acknowledgments | 353 |
| 393 | |
| 409 | |
Other editions - View all
Bach's Cycle, Mozart's Arrow: An Essay on the Origins of Musical Modernity Karol Berger Limited preview - 2007 |
Bach’s Cycle, Mozart’s Arrow: An Essay on the Origins of Musical Modernity Karol Berger Limited preview - 2007 |
Common terms and phrases
Adagio Allegro ancient aria autonomy Bach Bach’s bass Beethoven beginning Cambridge capo central choir chorale chord Christian Christoph Wolff close coda composer concerto contemplation cresc da capo aria death Demonstration divine dominant Don Giovanni duld E.T.A. Hoffmann earthly eternity Eurydice evil example exposition Faithful Faust Figaro final freedom fugue full cadence genre God’s Goethe Goethe’s half cadence harmony helft mir kla Hoffmann human idea Idomeneo individual instrumental J. S. Bach Jesus Jesus’s Johann Johann Sebastian Bach kla gen kommt Lamm Leporello libretto linear Magic Flute major man’s Matthäus-Passion melody minor modern modulation Monteverdi moral movement Mozart myth nature norms one’s opening chorus opera Orpheus Ottavio Pelagianism personages phrase Piano Sonata Picander political present Quartet recapitulation ritornello Rousseau salvation scale step seht sense Sextet solo story temporal theme tion tonal plan traditional trans University Press vocal voice Zion
Bibliographic information
| Title | Bach’s Cycle, Mozart’s Arrow: An Essay on the Origins of Musical Modernity Simpson, imprint in humanities |
| Author | Karol Berger |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | University of California Press, 2007 |
| ISBN | 0520257979, 9780520257979 |
| Length | 420 pages |
| Subjects | › › Music / Genres & Styles / Classical |
| Export Citation | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |