Music, Sexuality and the Enlightenment in Mozart’s Figaro, Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte

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Part I. Overtures: Introduction Enlightenment as negative freedom Enlightened music -- Part II. Masculine music: Music of enlightened masculinity Angry masculine music Libertinage and musical libertinage Enlightenment's legitimation of feelings Sensitive masculine music Conclusions to part II : the differentiation of masculine music -- Part III. Feminine music: Music of enlightened femininity Sorrowful feminine music Hysterical feminine music Music of feminine moral frailty Musical ridicule of female intentions Two maids' and a peasant girl's music Conclusions to part III : the differentiation of feminine music -- Part IV. Seductions: Simple musical seductions Complex musical seduction : Fiordiligi and Ferrando -- Part V. Finales: Five finales Don Giovanni and the stone man Kant, Sade and Don Giovanni Così fan tutte Act II Finale The futures of the operas.