Beautiful monsters : imagining the classic in musical media /

Main Author: Long, Michael, 1952-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Registering the classic. The expressive vernacular ; Making overtures ; Yiddishkeit and the musical ethics of cinema
  • Envisioning the classic. Hearing monsters ; The fantastic, the picturesque, and the dimensions of nostalgia ; Listening in dark places ; Concertos, symphonies, rhapsodies (and an opera)
  • Conclusion: sitting down with mnemosyne.