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xvi, 224 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-216) and index. |
| Contents |
The chromatic moment in Enlightenment thought -- A preamble on portraiture and language -- The chromatic moment -- Moments musicaux -- The fugal moment: on a few bars in Mozart's Quintet in C Major, K. 515 -- Hearing the silence: on a much-theorized moment in a sonata by Emanuel Bach -- The Klopstock moment -- Oden von Klopstock in Musik gesetzt -- Composing Klopstock : Gluck contra Bach -- "A poet among composers" -- "A Klopstock who worked in tones" -- Beethoven : in search of Klopstock -- Dramma per musica -- Anagnorisis : Gluck and the theater of recognition -- Cherubino's leap -- Konstanze's tears. |
| Summary |
'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.'-- Book flap. |
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Klopstock, Friedrich Gottlieb, 1724-1803 -- Musical settings -- History and criticism.
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Klopstock, Friedrich Gottlieb, 1724-1803. (OCoLC)fst00014974
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Music -- Germany -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
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Music -- Austria -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
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Enlightenment.
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Music -- 18th century -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
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Music and literature -- History -- 18th century.
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Enlightenment. (OCoLC)fst00912527
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Music. (OCoLC)fst01030269
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Music and literature. (OCoLC)fst01030479
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Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
(OCoLC)fst01030408
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Musical settings. (OCoLC)fst01353854
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Austria. (OCoLC)fst01204901
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Germany. (OCoLC)fst01210272
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Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| ISBN |
9780226377896 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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022637789X (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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9780226384085 (e-book) |
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