Music, Sexuality and the Enlightenment in Mozart's Figaro, Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte
- Author: Ford, Charles
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Contents
- Contents: Part I Overtures: Introduction
- Enlightenment as negative freedom
- Enlightened music. Part II Masculine Music: Music as Enlightened masculinity
- Angry masculine music
- Libertinage and musical libertinage
- The Enlightenment's legitimation of feelings
- Sensitive masculine music
- Conclusions to part II: the differentiation of masculine music. Part III Feminine Music: Music of Enlightened femininity
- Sorrowful feminine music
- Hysterical feminine music
- Music of feminine moral frailty
- The musical ridicule of female intentions
- Two maids' and a peasant girl's music
- Conclusions to part III: the differentiation of feminine music. Part IV Seductions: Simple musical seductions
- Complex musical seduction: Fiordiligi and Ferrando. Part V Finales: Five finales
- Don Giovanni and the stone man
- Kant, Sade and Don Giovanni
- Cosi fan tutte Act II finale
- The futures of the operas
- Bibliography
- Music examples
- Index.