Three Modes of Perception in Mozart: The Philosophical, Pastoral, and Comic in Cosí Fan Tutte

by Edmund J. Goehring

Book Overview

This 2004 book 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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521099161
• ISBN13: 9780521099165
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"