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Aesthetics: Considerations For the Determination of Musical Value

Post author By Connor Gaydon
Post date September 16, 2019
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Stecker (2003, pp.322-323) calls for further research to uncover an evaluative model, where “various prima facie considerations are all relevant to, but do not entail, a particular assessment”. He mentions how assessment based on these considerations “is one of the unsolved problems, not only in the epistemology of aesthetic value judgements, but in ethics and […]

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Così Fan Tutte: Context, Philosophy and Musico-Dramatic Relationships

Post author By Connor Gaydon
Post date June 18, 2019
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Così fan tutte was composed during somewhat of a compositional drought for Mozart. He had written only 4 major works in 1789, the year prior to the premiere of this opera (Steptoe, 1988, p.71). This, as well as Mozart’s financial difficulties and reputational difficulties for Da Ponte, meant that much was dependent on Così fan […]