Mozart and the Enlightenment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mozart and the Enlightenment write by Nicholas Till. This book was released on 1995. Mozart and the Enlightenment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this illuminating new study of Mozart's operas, Nicholas Till shows that the composer was not a "divine idiot" but an artist whose work was informed by the ideas and discoveries of his time. Examining the dramatic emergence of a modern society in eighteenth-century Austria, Till reappraises the history and meaning of the Enlightenment and Mozart's role within it. Book jacket.
Mozart and Enlightenment Semiotics
Mozart and Enlightenment Semiotics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mozart and Enlightenment Semiotics write by Stephen Rumph. This book was released on 2012. Mozart and Enlightenment Semiotics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "In Mozart and Enlightenment Semiotics, Stephen Rumph shifts the ground of interpretation for late eighteenth century European music by reinstating the semiotics and language theory of the period. In so doing, Rumph challenges and reappraises current orthodoxies. These challenges are extremely valuable, bravely offered, and intuitively right as well as convincingly argued." —Matthew Head, author of Orientalism, Masquerade and Mozart's Turkish Music "Stephen Rumph’s book is, to my knowledge, the first successful attempt to ground classical music in its contemporaneous intellectual context. In this respect, Rumph’s book is a great achievement. It is an imaginative tour-de-force bursting with dazzling insights, and with an apparently encyclopedic range of intellectual reference in several languages." —Michael Spitzer, author of Metaphor and Musical Thought “By keeping so many things in focus at the same time, Stephen Rumph has really written several books in one: an introduction to Enlightenment theories of the sign for scholars of music; a much-needed historical context for modern musical semiotics; a sensitive new exploration of the circulation of meanings in and through Mozart’s music; and an important contribution to the ongoing integration of musicology into cultural studies. I suspect that in the course of several readings, one would come away each time with a different set of equally valuable revelations.” —Elisabeth LeGuin, author of Boccherini's Body: An Essay in Carnal Musicology
Mozart's Piano Concertos
Mozart's Piano Concertos - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mozart's Piano Concertos write by Simon P. Keefe. This book was released on 2001. Mozart's Piano Concertos available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study investigates the interactive relationship between the piano and the orchestra in Mozart's concertos by exploring the historical implications and hermeneutic potential of dramatic dialogue.
Music, Sexuality and the Enlightenment in Mozart's Figaro, Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte
Music, Sexuality and the Enlightenment in Mozart's Figaro, Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Music, Sexuality and the Enlightenment in Mozart's Figaro, Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte write by Dr Charles Ford. This book was released on 2013-01-28. Music, Sexuality and the Enlightenment in Mozart's Figaro, Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Music, Sexuality and the Enlightenment explains how Mozart's music for Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte 'sounds' the intentions of Da Ponte's characters and their relationships with one another. Mozart, by way of the infinitely generative and beautiful logic of the sonata principle, did not merely interpret Da Ponte's characterizations but lent them temporal, musical forms. Charles Ford's analytic interpretation of these musical forms concerns processes and structures in detail and at medium- to long-term levels. He addresses the music of a wide range of arias and ensembles, and develops original ways to interpret the two largely overlooked operatic genres of secco recitative and finales. Moreover, Ford presents a new method by which to relate musical details directly to philosophical concepts, and thereby, the music of the operas to the inwardly contradictory thinking of the European Enlightenment. This involves close readings of late eighteenth-century understandings of 'man' and nature, self and other, morality and transgression, and gendered identities and sexuality, with particular reference to contemporary writers, especially Goethe, Kant, Laclos, Rousseau, Sade, Schiller, Sterne and Wollstonecraft. The concluding discussion of the implied futures of the operas argues that their divided sexualities, which are those of the Enlightenment as a whole, have come to form our own unquestioned assumptions about gender differences and sexuality. This, along with the elegant and eloquent precision of Mozart's music, is why Figaro, Giovanni and Così still maintain their vital immediacy for audiences today.
The Son of Enlightenment
The Son of Enlightenment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Son of Enlightenment write by Christian Jacq. This book was released on 2011-10-13. The Son of Enlightenment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First a symphony and then a song ...Mozart can never stop composing. It's as if his life depends on it. But this deeply angers his employer, the Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg, who will not tolerate the slightest disobedience. So the rebellious young musician decides to get away from the court of his oppressive patron once and for all by moving to Vienna, where he will finally meet the love of his life, Constance Weber. Meanwhile, Thamos, Count of Thebes and Mozart's ever-faithful Egyptian companion, accompanies him to the city. One of the last members of a spiritual brotherhood, keeping alive the secrets of the pharaohs, his mission is to find and protect the 'Great Magician' foretold by Osiris, a genius whose works will save humanity. Convinced that he has found the one in young Mozart, there is no time to lose in instructing his young protege in the Masonic rites inspired by the Egyptian Great Mysteries. But in doing so, Thamos and Mozart find themselves in great danger. For the governing powers will not tolerate what they take to be the first steps towards revolution ...
