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Coming to Terms with Our Musical Past - An Essay on Mozart and Modernist Aesthetics (Hardcover)
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Coming to Terms with Our Musical Past - An Essay on Mozart and Modernist Aesthetics (Hardcover)
Series: Eastman Studies in Music
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A bold, restorative vision of Mozart's works, and Western art music
generally, as manifestations of an idealism rooted in the sociable
nature of humans. For over a generation now, many leading
performers, critics, and scholars of Mozart's music have taken a
rejection of transcendence as axiomatic. This essentially
modernist, antiromantic orientation attempts to neutralize the
sorts of aesthetic experiences that presuppose an enchantment with
Mozart's art, an engagement traditionally articulated by such terms
as intention, mimesis, author, and genius. And what is true of much
recent Mozart interpretation isoften manifest in the interpretation
of Western art music more generally. Edmund Goehring's Coming to
Terms with Our Musical Past explores what gets lost when the
vocabulary of enchantment is abandoned. The bookthen proceeds to
offer an alternative vision of Mozart's works and of the wider
canon of Western art music. A modernized poetics, Goehring argues,
reduces art to mechanism or process. It sees less because it
excludes a necessaryand enlarging human presence: the generative,
and receiving, "I." This fascinating new book-length essay is
addressed to any reader interested in the performing arts, visual
arts, and literature and their relationship to the broader culture.
Goehring draws on seminal thinkers in art criticism and philosophy
to propose that such works as Mozart's radiate an idealism that has
human sociability both as its source and its object. Edmund J.
Goehring is Professor of Music History at the University of Western
Ontario.
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