Three Modes of Perception in Mozart

The Philosophical, Pastoral, and Comic in Cosi Fan Tutte
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-0-521-83881-8
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 672 g

Reihe: Cambridge Studies in Opera

This is a full-length, scholarly study of what is widely regarded as Mozart's most enigmatic opera and Lorenzo Da Ponte's most erudite text. Against the long-standing judgement that the opera uses a misguided confidence in reason to traduce feeling, Goehring's study shows how Cosi affirms comedy's regenerative powers and its capacity to grant access to modes of sympathy and understanding that are otherwise inaccessible. In making this argument, the book surveys a rich literary, operatic and intellectual territory. It offers fresh perspective on the relationships between text and tone in the opera, on the tension between comedy and philosophy and its representation in stage works and on the pastoral mode which the opera uses in subtle ways. Throughout, Goehring's argument is sustained by close readings of primary sources, many of them little known, and is richly illustrated with musical examples.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Goehring, Edmund J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Opernmusik
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Einzelne Komponisten und Musiker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of tables, Preface and acknowledgements; A note on abbreviations; List of abbreviations; 1. An overture to Cosi fan tutte: the poetics of the opera over two centuries; 2. The philosophical mode; 3. The pastoral mode; 4. The comic mode; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Goehring, Edmund J.
Edmund J. Goehring is Assistant Professor of Liberal Studies at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. He has contributed essays to a number of volumes and has published in several journals including Cambridge Opera Journal. He is also a founding member of the Mozart Society of America.