| Description |
xvii, 743 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 681-708) and index. |
| Contents |
Locating music : society, modernity, and the new. Music, language, and compostion (1956) -- Why is the new art so hard to understand? (1931) -- On the contemporary relationship of philosophy and music (1953) -- On the problem of musical analysis (1969) -- The aging of the new music (1955) -- The dialectical composer (1934) -- Culture, technology, and listening. The radio symphony (1941) -- The curves of the needle (1927/1965) -- The form of the phonograph record (1934) -- Opera and the long-playing record (1969) -- On the fetish-character in music and the regression of listening (1938) -- Little heresy (1965) -- Music and mass culture. What national socialism has done to the arts (1945) -- On the social situation of music (1932) -- On popular music (1941) -- On jazz (1936) -- Farewell to jazz (1933) -- Kitsch (c. 1932) -- Music in the background (c. 1934) -- Composition, composers, and works. Late style in Beethoven (1937) -- Alienated masterpiece : the Missa solemnis (1959) -- Wagner's relevance for today (1963) -- Mahler today (1930) -- Marginalia on Mahler (1936) -- The opera Wozzeck (1929) -- Toward an understanding of Schoenberg (1955/1967) -- Difficulties (1964, 1966). |
| Subject |
Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
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Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics. |
| Added Author |
Leppert, Richard D.
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Gillespie, Susan H., translator.
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| ISBN |
0520226720 alkaline paper |
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0520231597 paperback alkaline paper |
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