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Mozart´s Grace

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Description for Mozart´s Grace Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGC4; AVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 158 x 235 x 15. Weight in Grams: 310.
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; ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691168067
SKU
V9780691168067
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About Scott Burnham
Scott Burnham is the Scheide Professor of Music History at Princeton University. His books include Beethoven Hero (Princeton) and Sounding Values.

Reviews for Mozart´s Grace
Winner of the 2014 Otto Kinkeldey Award, American Musicological Society One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013 "Here is analysis and commentary written with considerable enthusiasm and affection... Mozart's Grace is written with great fervour and yes, grace, together with a deep love of Mozart's music."
Classical Music Magazine "The premise: identify some of the best bits in Mozart's works, ... Read more

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