On Counter-Enlightenment Existential Irony and Sanctification

<div><div><p>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 existential irony and sanctification 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 existential irony) or very parenthetically merely in passing in the biographies of composers of classical musics. This groundbreaking work illustrates their generality and sociological sources and correlates in contemporary Western art musics.</p></div></div>