Eighteenth-Century Music.(Bach's Cycle, Mozart's Arrow: An Essay on the Origins of Musical Modernity)(Book review)

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Bach's Cycle, Mozart's Arrow: An Essay on the Origins of Musical Modernity. By Karol Berger. (Simpson Imprint in Humanities.) Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. [xi, 420 p. ISBN-13: 9780520250918. $39.95.] Music examples, illustrations, bibliographical references, index.

Time in music is often a slippery and difficult subject to master, particularly since it seems not to be perceived as a smoothly flowing, continuous stream. Modern music, of course, diffuses the conventions of time; for instance, aleatory, while sometimes taking place within a strict ...

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