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What does it mean?
Goulding sees Mozart as a unique moment where musical tensions resolved perfectly.
In plain terms
Mozart was the moment all musical tensions resolved.
What can you take from it?
Mozart represents peak musical synthesis.

Where it applies

  • studying music history
  • analyzing periods

Putting it to work

  • identifying peaks
  • analyzing resolutions

Questions to consider

  • When do things resolve perfectly?
  • Who represents peak harmony?

Another view

It ignores evolution before and after.

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