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Music, sexuality and the enlightenment in Mozart's Figaro, Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte /

This analytical study explains how Mozart's music for Le Nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte 'sounds' the intentions of Da Ponte's characters and their relationships with one another. Mozart did not merely interpret Da Ponte's characterisations but lent them te...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ford, Charles (Charles C.) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; List of Music Examples; Notes on the Text; Part I: Overtures; 1 Introduction; 2 Enlightenment as Negative Freedom; 3 Enlightened Music; Part II: Masculine Music; 4 Music of Enlightened Masculinity; 5 Angry Masculine Music; 6 Libertinage and Musical Libertinage; 7 The Enlightenment's Legitimation of Feelings; 8 Sensitive Masculine Music; 9 Music of Enlightened Femininity; 10 Sorrowful Feminine Music; 11 Hysterical Feminine Music; 12 Music of Feminine Moral Frailty; 13 The Musical Ridicule of Female Intentions.
  • 14 Two Maids' and a Peasant Girl's MusicConclusions to Part III The Differentiation of Feminine Music; Part IV: Seductions; 15 Simple Musical Seductions; 16 Complex Musical Seduction: Fiordiligi and Ferrando; Part V: Finales; 17 Five Finales; 18 Don Giovanni and the Stone Man; 19 Kant, Sade and Don Giovanni; 20 Così fan tutte, Act II Finale; 21 The Futures of the Operas; Bibliography; Music Examples; Index.