Freedom and the arts essays on music and literature /
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Harvard University Press,
c2012.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10678694 |
Table of Contents:
- 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.