Don Giovanni at the Crossroads of Pleasure and Virtue

In a project, like The Don Giovanni Moment, that deals with the reception history of a canonical work, several kinds of questions can vie for attention. The volume's subtitle highlights a general interest in a historical question: the "legacy" it chooses to explore is largely one pre...

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Main Author: Edmund J. Goehring
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Columbia University Libraries 2007-09-01
Series:Current Musicology
Online Access:https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/currentmusicology/article/view/5100
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spelling doaj-748f99a3c271416f97d1dd3e0285e97a2020-11-25T04:03:26ZengColumbia University LibrariesCurrent Musicology0011-37352007-09-018410.7916/cm.v0i84.5100Don Giovanni at the Crossroads of Pleasure and VirtueEdmund J. Goehring In a project, like The Don Giovanni Moment, that deals with the reception history of a canonical work, several kinds of questions can vie for attention. The volume's subtitle highlights a general interest in a historical question: the "legacy" it chooses to explore is largely one presented in nineteenth-century imaginative and, to a lesser extent, philosophical works. (The main exception is Ingrid Rowland's discussion of religious ritual and the Don Juan legend before Mozart, "Don Giovanni: 'And what communion hath light with darkness?"') For some essays, the topic of history yields to one of criticism. https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/currentmusicology/article/view/5100
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description In a project, like The Don Giovanni Moment, that deals with the reception history of a canonical work, several kinds of questions can vie for attention. The volume's subtitle highlights a general interest in a historical question: the "legacy" it chooses to explore is largely one presented in nineteenth-century imaginative and, to a lesser extent, philosophical works. (The main exception is Ingrid Rowland's discussion of religious ritual and the Don Juan legend before Mozart, "Don Giovanni: 'And what communion hath light with darkness?"') For some essays, the topic of history yields to one of criticism.
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