Bach's Cycle, Mozart's Arrow: An Essay on the Origins of Musical Modernity

Contents......Page 10
List of Illustrations......Page 12
Introduction......Page 14
Prelude L’Orfeo, or the Anxiety of the Moderns......Page 32
Part I Bach’s Cycle......Page 56
1 The Arrested Procession......Page 58
Appendix: St. Matthew Passion, opening chorus, full score......Page 74
2 A Crystal Flying Like a Bullet......Page 102
3 There Is No Time Like God’s Time......Page 115
Augustine......Page 144
The Birth of Autonomy......Page 155
Rousseau......Page 161
The Christian and Modern Outlooks Compared......Page 171
The Emancipation of Time......Page 178
From Cosmos to History......Page 185
Part II Mozart’s Arrow......Page 190
4 Mozart at Play......Page 192
5 The Hidden Center......Page 212
6 Between Incoherence and Inauthenticity: Don Giovanni and Faust......Page 254
7 Die Zauberflöte, or the Self-Assertion of the Moderns......Page 293
Between Utopia and Melancholy: Beethoven and the Aesthetic State......Page 306
Acknowledgments......Page 366
Notes......Page 370
Works Cited......Page 406
Index......Page 422