Prelude : L'Orfeo, or the anxiety of the moderns
Bach's cycle. The arrested procession ; A crystal flying like a bullet ; There is no time like God's time
Interlude : Jean-Jacques contra Augustinum : a little treatise on moral-political theology
Mozart's arrow. Mozart at play ; The hidden center ; Between incoherence and inauthenticity : Don Giovanni and Faust ; Die Zauberflöte, or the self-assertion of the moderns
Postlude : between utopia and melancholy : Beethoven and the aesthetic state.
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Bach's cycle, Mozart's arrow : an essay on the origins of musical modernity by Karol Berger. ISBN 9780520250918. Published by University of California Press in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
