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Hardcover:
9780520292758 | Univ of California Pr, November 22, 2016, cover price $65.00
Product Description: 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 a shift from the premodern Christian outlook to the modern post-Christian worldview...read more
Hardcover:
9780520250918 | 1 edition (Univ of California Pr, October 15, 2007), cover price $85.00 | About this edition: 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 a shift from the premodern Christian outlook to the modern post-Christian worldview.
Paperback:
9780520257979 | Univ of California Pr, September 10, 2008, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: 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 a shift from the premodern Christian outlook to the modern post-Christian worldview.
Product Description: For most music historians, the modernism of the twentieth century was until recently the only appearance of the "modern" in music. The widely perceived recent decline of musical modernism makes it now possible to see the modernism of the twentieth century as a chapter in a much longer story, the story of musical modernity...read more
Hardcover:
9780964031722 | Harvard Univ Dept of Music, April 30, 2005, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: For most music historians, the modernism of the twentieth century was until recently the only appearance of the "modern" in music.
9780674017832 | Harvard Univ Pr, April 4, 2005, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: For most music historians, the modernism of the twentieth century was until recently the only appearance of the "modern" in music.
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Paperback:
9780521543385 | Cambridge Univ Pr, August 31, 2004, cover price $44.99
Product Description: What, if anything, has art to do with the rest of our lives, and in particular with those ethical and political issues that matter to us most? Will art created today be likely to play a role in our lives as profound as that of the best art of the past? A Theory of Art shifts the focus of aesthetics from the traditional debate of "what is art?" to the engaging question of "what is art for?" Skillfully describing the social and historical situation of art today, author Karol Berger argues that music exemplifies the current condition of art in a radical, acute, and revealing fashion...read more
Hardcover:
9780195128604 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, December 16, 1999, cover price $150.00 | About this edition: What, if anything, has art to do with the rest of our lives, and in particular with those ethical and political issues that matter to us most?
Paperback:
9780195158526 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, November 21, 2002, cover price $67.00 | About this edition: What, if anything, has art to do with the rest of our lives, and in particular with those ethical and political issues that matter to us most?
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