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Coming to Terms with Our Musical Past
Edmund J. Goehring
2018
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A 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.
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Keywords
- artistic
- Classical music (c 1750 to c 1830)
- classical"
- Cultural
- Human Presence
- Human Sociability
- Humanities
- Idealism
- Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups
- Interprétation
- Literature
- modernist aesthetics
- Mozart
- Music
- Music: styles & genres
- Musical Past
- Performing Arts
- Philosophy
- Philosophy: aesthetics
- The arts
- thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AV Music::AVL Music: styles and genres::AVLA Art music, orchestral and formal music
- thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AV Music::AVN Composers and songwriters
- thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AV Music::AVP Musicians, singers, bands and groups
- thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTN Philosophy: aesthetics
- Visual Arts
- Western "
- Western art music
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