Mozart's Grace (eBook)

Scott Burnham (Autor)

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2012
208 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-4511-8 (ISBN)

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Scott Burnham is the Scheide Professor of Music History at Princeton University. His books include Beethoven Hero (Princeton) and Sounding Values.

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Aspects of beauty in the music of MozartIt 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.11.2012
• Zusatzinfo: 4 halftones. 165 musical examples.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musikgeschichte
• Schlagworte: Alberti bass • Alfred Einstein • Appoggiatura • Arnold Schoenberg • Art Tatum • Ave verum corpus • Ave verum corpus (Mozart) • Babes in Toyland (operetta) • baritone • Beautiful Music • Buoyancy • Cambridge University Press • Case Western Reserve University • Charles Rosen • Christoph Wolff • circle of fifths • Clarinet • Comic opera • Composer • Cornell University • David Lewin • Don Giovanni • Draw Breath • Edward T. Cone • Eighth note • Elaine Sisman • Example (musician) • Ferruccio Busoni • Festschrift • Florida State University • Genre • Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht • Harvard University • Heterophony • I Hope • Illustration • Il mondo della Luna • Immanence • Johann Sebastian Bach • Joseph Kerman • Karl Barth • Kyrie • Leonard Ratner • Leo Treitler • Lightness (philosophy) • listening • Ludwig van Beethoven • Magic chord • Major scale • Malcolm Bilson • Maynard Solomon • Melodic motion • Melody • Mephistopheles • minuet • Modernity • Modulation (music) • Motet • Mozart effect • musical composition • Music Is • music theory • narrative • Oboe • One Thing Remains • Opera buffa • Ornament (music) • Oxford University Press • Pedal • Pennsylvania State University • Phrase (music) • Pierre Boulez • Princeton University • Prolongation • Refrain • Reinhold Brinkmann • Requiem (Mozart) • Rhythm • Richard Taruskin • Rider University • selfhood • Sixteenth note • Stanford University • stretto • Susan McClary • Suzannah Clark • Swarthmore College • Symphony No. 40 (Mozart) • The Amazing • The Classical Style • The Marriage of Figaro • tonality • Tonic (music) • Transcendentalism • Trill (music) • Triumphant (Get 'Em) • Tuning fork • voice leading • Wind Instrument • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-4511-4 / 1400845114
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-4511-8 / 9781400845118