Table of Contents

Introduction: Setting the Stage, and Then Exiting It On Critique; or, Two Paths through the Art-Critical World On Transcendence; or, Mozart among the Neoplatonists, Present and Past On Intention On Being On Chance and Necessity On Ambiguity On Mimesis On Pleasure On Concepts and Culture The Flaws in the Finale Conclusion: An Other Modernism? Notes Bibliography Index

Reviews

WINNER of the 2019 Marjorie Weston Emerson Award from the Mozart Society of America * . *
Exhaustively researched and documented . . . [this book] considers such concepts as intention, ambiguity, mimesis, chance, and necessity -- each with its own chapter -- in the light of modernist concepts, and with a critique as to whether that is adequate to understand Mozart's works, divorced from the magic and genius that many music lovers have long associated with him. A detailed and impressive set of arguments, concluding that the limits of modernist aesthetics are inadequate to understanding 'a Mozartean beauty -- where the familiar, the superabundant, and the uncanny meet.' AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE * AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE *