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In this erudite and elegantly composed argument, Karol Berger uses the works of Monteverdi, Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven to support two groundbreaking claims: first, that it was only in the later eighteenth century that music began to take the flow of time from the past to the future seriously; second, that this change in the structure of musical time was an aspect of a larger transformation in the way educated Europeans began to imagine and think about time with the onset of modernity, a part of
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- Author
- Berger, Karol
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9786612445743
- Category
- music
- Subjects
- Opera, History, Music
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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