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dc.contributor.authorGoehring, Edmund J.
dc.date.accessioned2023-12-06T18:03:23Z
dc.date.available2023-12-06T18:03:23Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifierONIX_20231206_9781787442849_7
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/85983
dc.description.abstractA bold, restorative vision of Mozart's works, and Western art music generally, as manifestations of an idealism rooted in the sociable nature of humans. For over a generation now, many leading performers, critics, and scholars of Mozart's music have taken a rejection of transcendence as axiomatic. This essentially modernist, antiromantic orientation attempts to neutralize the sorts of aesthetic experiences that presuppose an enchantment with Mozart's art, an engagement traditionally articulated by such terms as intention, mimesis, author, and genius. And what is true of much recent Mozart interpretation isoften manifest in the interpretation of Western art music more generally. Edmund Goehring's Coming to Terms with Our Musical Past explores what gets lost when the vocabulary of enchantment is abandoned. The bookthen proceeds to offer an alternative vision of Mozart's works and of the wider canon of Western art music. A modernized poetics, Goehring argues, reduces art to mechanism or process. It sees less because it excludes a necessaryand enlarging human presence: the generative, and receiving, "I." 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. Goehring draws on seminal thinkers in art criticism and philosophy to propose that such works as Mozart's radiate an idealism that has human sociability both as its source and its object. This book is available as an Open Access eBook under the Creative Commons license: CC BY-NC.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesEastman Studies in Music
dc.subject.otherMusical Past
dc.subject.otherMozart
dc.subject.otherModernist Aesthetics
dc.subject.otherWestern Art Music
dc.subject.otherIdealism
dc.subject.otherHuman Sociability
dc.subject.otherLiterature
dc.subject.otherPerforming Arts
dc.subject.otherVisual Arts
dc.subject.otherPhilosophy
dc.subject.otherInterpretation
dc.subject.otherCultural
dc.subject.otherArtistic
dc.subject.otherHuman Presence
dc.titleComing to Terms with Our Musical Past
dc.title.alternativeAn Essay on Mozart and Modernist Aesthetics
dc.typebook
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy2f51bde7-eaae-4e18-9c1c-ad757a12abea
oapen.relation.isbn9781787442849
oapen.relation.isbn9781580469302
oapen.imprintUniversity of Rochester Press
oapen.series.number147
oapen.pages222
oapen.place.publicationRochester


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