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

New York: Routledge City. - 2016 - 336 p.: musical examples, tables and figures
Overtures: Introduction
Enlightenment as negative freedom
Enlightened musicMasculine music: Music of enlightened masculinity
Angry masculine music
Libertinage and musical libertinage
Enlightenment's legitimation of feelings
Sensitive masculine music
Conclusions: the differentiation of masculine musicFeminine 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: the differentiation of feminine musicSeductions: Simple musical seductions
Complex musical seduction : Fiordiligi and FerrandoFinales: Five finales
Don Giovanni and the stone man
Kant, Sade and Don Giovanni
Così fan tutte Act II Finale
The futures of the operas