| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
viii, 438 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The weight of society. Freedom and art -- Culture on the market -- The future of music -- The canon -- Mostly Mozart. Dramatic and tonal logic in Mozart's operas -- Mozart's entry into the twentieth century -- The triumph of Mozart -- Drama and figured bass in Mozart's concertos -- Mozart and posterity -- Structural dissonance and the classical sonata -- Tradition without convention -- Centenaries. Felix Mendelssohn at 200 : prodigy without peer -- Happy birthday, Elliott Carter! -- Frédéric Chopin, reactionary and revolutionary -- Robert Schumann, a vision of the future -- Long perspectives. The New Grove's dictionary returns -- Western music : the view from California -- Postscript: modernism and the Cold War -- Theodore Adorno : criticism as cultural nostalgia -- Resuscitating opera : Alessandro Scarlatti -- Operatic paradoxes : the ridiculous and sublime -- Lost chords and the golden age of pianism -- Classical modernism : past and present -- Montaigne : philosophy as process -- La Fontaine : the ethical power of style -- The anatomy lesson : melancholy and the invention of boredom -- Mallarmé and the transfiguration of poetry -- Hoffmansthal and radical modernism -- The private obsessions of Wystan Auden -- Final cadence, unresolved. Old wisdom and newfangled theory : two one-way streets to disaster. |
| Subject |
Music -- History and criticism.
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Music. |
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Literature -- History and criticism.
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Literature. |
| ISBN |
9780674047525 |
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0674047524 |
| Standard No. |
40020909082 |
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