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Cherubino's leap : in search of the Enlightenment moment / Richard Kramer.
Author
Kramer, Richard, 1938-
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English
Published/Created
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
©2016
Description
xvi, 224 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Mendel Music Library - Stacks
ML275.3 .K73 2016
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Klopstock, Friedrich Gottlieb 1724-1803
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Musical settings
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History and criticism
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Music
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Germany
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18th century
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History and criticism
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Music
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Austria
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18th century
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History and criticism
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Enlightenment
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Music
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18th century
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Philosophy and aesthetics
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Music and literature
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History
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Summary note
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 a range of iconic instrumental works by Emanuel Bach, Haydn, and Mozart; in the musical engagement with the formidable odes of Friedrich Klopstock; and, on the grand stage of opera, at the intense moment of recognition in Gluck's Iphigenie en Tauride and the exquisitely introverted phrase that complicates Cherubino's daring escape in Mozart's Figaro. Finally, the tears of the disconsolate Konstanze in Mozart's Entf hrung inspire a reflection on the tragic aspect of the composer's operatic women. Other players from literature and the arts Diderot, Goethe, Lessing among them enrich the landscape of this journey through the Enlightenment imagination.
Bibliographic references
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.
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ISBN
9780226377896 ((hardcover ; : alkaline paper))
022637789X ((hardcover ; : alkaline paper))
LCCN
2016019385
OCLC
944086887
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