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64%OFFCharles Ford - Music, Sexuality and the Enlightenment in Mozart´s Figaro, Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte - 9780754668893 - V9780754668893
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Music, Sexuality and the Enlightenment in Mozart´s Figaro, Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte

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Description for Music, Sexuality and the Enlightenment in Mozart´s Figaro, Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte Hardback. Explains how Mozart's music for Le Nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni and Cosi Fan Tutte 'sounds' the intentions of Da Ponte's characters and their relationships with one another. Num Pages: 350 pages, Includes 7 b&w illustrations and 134 musical examples. BIC Classification: AVGC9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 241 x 28. Weight in Grams: 814.
Music, Sexuality and the Enlightenment 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, by way of the infinitely generative and beautiful logic of the sonata principle, did not merely interpret Da Ponte's characterizations but lent them temporal, musical forms. Charles Ford's analytic interpretation of these musical forms concerns processes and structures in detail and at medium- to long-term levels. He addresses the music of a wide range of arias and ensembles, and develops original ways to interpret the two ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
350
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
350
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780754668893
SKU
V9780754668893
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About Charles Ford
Charles Ford is an associate fellow of the Institute of Musical Research, University of London, UK

Reviews for Music, Sexuality and the Enlightenment in Mozart´s Figaro, Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte
'In this highly nuanced and multi-disciplinary study, Charles Ford shows us how tonal identifications foster nonconceptual forms of significance. Through music we feel, and through feeling we come to know (and know how to make) difference. Ford guides us adroitly, aria by aria, scene by scene, in Mozart's art of tonal identification. Music, Sexuality and the Enlightenment illuminates music as ... Read more

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