Three Modes of Perception in Mozart

This 2004 book is a full-length, scholarly study of what is widely regarded as Mozart''s most enigmatic opera and Lorenzo Da Ponte''s most erudite text. Against the long-standing judgement that the opera uses a misguided confidence in reason to traduce feeling, Goehring''s study shows how Cosi affirms comedy''s regenerative powers and its capacity to grant access to modes of sympathy and understan...