Coming to Terms with Our Musical Past

FAIN: DR-292425-23

University of Rochester (Rochester, NY 14627-0001)
Sue Smith (Project Director: November 2022 to September 2024)

A bold, restorative vision of Mozart's works, and Western art music generally, as manifestations of an idealism rooted in the sociable nature of humans. Edmund Goehring's Coming to Terms with Our Musical Past offers an alternative vision of Mozart's works and of Western art music generally: such works as Mozart's radiate an idealism that has human sociability both as its source and its object. This fascinating 2018 book-length essay is addressed to any reader interested in the performing arts, visual arts, and literature and their relationship to the broader culture.

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Coming to Terms with Our Musical Past: An Essay on Mozart and Modernist Aesthetics (Open Access eBook or Collection)
Title: Coming to Terms with Our Musical Past: An Essay on Mozart and Modernist Aesthetics
Year: 2018
ISBN: 9781787442849
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Author: Edmund Goehring
Abstract: For over a generation now, many leading performers, critics, and scholars of Mozart's music have taken a rejection of transcendence as axiomatic. Edmund Goehring's Coming to Terms with Our Musical Past offers an alternative vision of Mozart's works and of Western art music generally: such works as Mozart's radiate an idealism that has human sociability both as its source and its object. This fascinating new book-length essay is addressed to any reader interested in the performing arts, visual arts, and literature and their relationship to the broader culture.
Primary URL: https://openaccess.boydellandbrewercms.com/publications/-267553/coming-to-terms-with-our-musical-past
Primary URL Description: University of Rochester Press
Secondary URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvb6v5ft
Secondary URL Description: JSTOR
URL 3: https://muse.jhu.edu/book/73415
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URL 4: https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/85983
URL 4 Description: OAPEN
Type: Single author monograph

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