Charles Ford

Music, Sexuality and the Enlightenment in Mozart's Figaro, Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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 temporal, musical forms. Charles Ford's analysis presents a new method by which to relate the music of the operas to the thinking of the European Enlightenment, involving close readings of late eighteenth-century understandings of 'man' and nature, self and other, morality and transgression, and gendered identities and sexuality.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317091578
• Artikelnr.: 44991249

Autorenporträt

Charles Ford is an associate fellow of the Institute of Musical Research, University of London, UK

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures and Tables
List of Music Examples
Notes on the Text and Acknowledgements
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
Conclusions to Part II: The Differentiation of Masculine Music
Part III. Feminine 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 Music
Conclusions 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