Freedom and the arts essays on music and literature /

Main Author: Rosen, Charles, 1927-2012.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, c2012.
Edition:1st ed.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10678694
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300 |a viii, 438 p. :  |b ill.,. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a The weight of society -- Freedom and art -- Culture on the market -- The future of music -- The canon -- 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 -- Felix Mendelssohn at 200 : prodigy without peer -- Happy birthday, Elliott Carter! -- Frβedβeric 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 -- Theodore Adorno : criticism as cultural nostalgia -- Resuscitating opera : Alessandro Scarlatti -- Operatic paradoxes : the ridiculous and sublime -- Lost chords and the golden age of pianism -- Montaigne : philosophy as process -- La Fontaine : the ethical power of style -- The anatomy lesson : melancholy and the invention of boredom -- Mallarmβe and the transfiguration of poetry -- Hoffmansthal and radical modernism -- The private obsessions of Wystan Auden -- Old wisdom and newfangled theory : two one-way streets to disaster. 
650 0 |a Music  |x History and criticism. 
650 0 |a Literature  |x History and criticism. 
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