It is a common article of faith that Mozart composed the most
beautiful music we can know. But few of us ask why. Why does the
beautiful in Mozart stand apart, as though untouched by human
hands? At the same time, why does it inspire intimacy rather than
distant admiration, love rather than awe? And how does Mozart's
music create and sustain its buoyant and ever-renewable effects? In
Mozart's Grace, Scott Burnham probes a treasury of passages from
many different genres of Mozart's music, listening always for the
qualities of Mozartean beauty: beauty held in suspension; beauty
placed in motion; beauty as the uncanny threshold of another
dimension, whether inwardly profound or outwardly transcendent; and
beauty as a time-stopping, weightless suffusion that comes on like
an act of grace. Throughout the book, Burnham engages musical
issues such as sonority, texture, line, harmony, dissonance, and
timing, and aspects of large-scale form such as thematic returns,
retransitions, and endings. Vividly describing a range of musical
effects, Burnham connects the ways and means of Mozart's music to
other domains of human significance, including expression,
intimation, interiority, innocence, melancholy, irony, and renewal.
We follow Mozart from grace to grace, and discover what his music
can teach us about beauty and its relation to the human spirit. The
result is a newly inflected view of our perennial attraction to
Mozart's music, presented in a way that will speak to musicians and
music lovers alike.
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