Bach’s Cycle, Mozart’s Arrow: An Essay on the Origins of Musical Modernity [1ed.]0520257979, 9780520257979, 0520250915, 9780520250918

"""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