Bücher von Judah Matras

This book introduces the topics of Enlightenment, Counter-Enlightenment, and social demography in Western art musics and demonstrates their historical and sociological importance. The essays in this book explore the concepts of "e;existential irony"e; and "e;sanctification,"e; which have been mentioned or discussed by music scholars, historians, and musicologists only either in connection with specific composers' works (Shostakovich's, in the case of "e;existential irony"e;) or very parenthetically, merely in passing in the biographies of composers of "e;classical"e; musics. This groundbreaking work illustrates their generality and sociological sources and correlates in contemporary Western art musics.