Tim Carter is a musicologist who has taught at the Universities of Leicester and Lancaster, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has been awarded numerous fellowships, including at the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Villa I Tatti, the Newberry Library, and the National Humanities Center. Carter is an honorary member of the American Musicological Society, the Royal Musical Association, and the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music.

• List of Music Examples, Figures, and Tables Acknowledgments Editorial (etc.) Principles 1: Theme and Variations 2: The "Meaning" of Keys: Eighteenth-Century Views 3: E-flat Major: The Flat Seventh and Other Space-Opening Motions 4: A Major: 5 or 3 and Other Problems 5: Rosina and Her Sisters 6: "A Major" Seduction 7: Farewell to Nancy Storace (in Three Flats) 8: Instrumental Complications Works Cited Index of Mozart's WorksGeneral Index

Tim Carter's witty and insightful book sheds light on how thecomposer pushed the boundaries of musical meaning, stillrelevant today.

Tim Carter is a musicologist who has taught at the Universities of Leicester and Lancaster, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has been awarded numerous fellowships, including at the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Villa I Tatti, the Newberry Library, and the National Humanities Center. Carter is an honorary member of the American Musicological Society, the Royal Musical Association, and the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music.

• List of Music Examples, Figures, and Tables Acknowledgments Editorial (etc.) Principles 1: Theme and Variations 2: The "Meaning" of Keys: Eighteenth-Century Views 3: E-flat Major: The Flat Seventh and Other Space-Opening Motions 4: A Major: 5 or 3 and Other Problems 5: Rosina and Her Sisters 6: "A Major" Seduction 7: Farewell to Nancy Storace (in Three Flats) 8: Instrumental Complications Works Cited Index of Mozart's WorksGeneral Index

Tim Carter's witty and insightful book sheds light on how thecomposer pushed the boundaries of musical meaning, stillrelevant today.

Tim Carter is a musicologist who has taught at the Universities of Leicester and Lancaster, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has been awarded numerous fellowships, including at the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Villa I Tatti, the Newberry Library, and the National Humanities Center. Carter is an honorary member of the American Musicological Society, the Royal Musical Association, and the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music.

• List of Music Examples, Figures, and Tables Acknowledgments Editorial (etc.) Principles 1: Theme and Variations 2: The "Meaning" of Keys: Eighteenth-Century Views 3: E-flat Major: The Flat Seventh and Other Space-Opening Motions 4: A Major: 5 or 3 and Other Problems 5: Rosina and Her Sisters 6: "A Major" Seduction 7: Farewell to Nancy Storace (in Three Flats) 8: Instrumental Complications Works Cited Index of Mozart's WorksGeneral Index

Tim Carter's witty and insightful book sheds light on how thecomposer pushed the boundaries of musical meaning, stillrelevant today.