Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Preface xiii
5. Preliminaries
6. 1. The Chromatic Moment in Enlightenment Thought 3
7. Moments Musicaux
8. 2. The Fugal Moment: On a Few Bars in Mozart’s Quintet in C Major, K. 515 29
9. 3. Hearing the Silence: On a Much-Theorized Moment in a Sonata by Emanuel Bach 42
10. The Klopstock Moment
11. 4. Oden von Klopstock in Musik gesetzt... 63
12. 5. Composing Klopstock: Gluck contra Bach 85
13. 6. Beethoven: In Search of Klopstock 112
14. Dramma per Musica
15. 7. Anagnorisis: Gluck and the Theater of Recognition 135
16. 8. Cherubino’s Leap 162
17. 9. Konstanze’s Tears 188
18. Works Cited 205
19. Index 217