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 and “existential irony and ” and and “sanctification, and ” 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 and “existential irony and “) or very parenthetically, merely in passing in the biographies of composers of and “classical and ” musics. This groundbreaking work illustrates their generality and sociological sources and correlates in contemporary Western art musics.

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