Freedom and the Arts : Essays on Music and Literature.
Charles. Rosen
Bok Engelsk 2012 · Electronic books.
| Omfang | 1 online resource (449 pages)
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| Utgave | 1st ed.
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| Opplysninger | Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. The Weight of Society -- 1. Freedom and Art -- 2. Culture on the Market -- 3. The Future of Music -- 4. The Canon -- Part II. Mostly Mozart -- 5. Dramatic and Tonal Logic in Mozart's Operas -- 6. Mozart's Entry into the Twentieth Century -- 7. The Triumph of Mozart -- 8. Drama and Figured Bass in Mozart's Concertos -- 9. Mozart and Posterity -- 10. Structural Dissonance and the Classical Sonata -- 11. Tradition without Convention -- Part III. Centenaries -- 12. Felix Mendelssohn at 200: Prodigy without Peer -- 13. Happy Birthday, Elliott Carter! -- 14. Frédéric Chopin, Reactionary and Revolutionary -- 15. Robert Schumann, a Vision of the Future -- Part IV. Long Perspectives -- 16. The New Grove's Dictionary Returns -- 17. Western Music: The View from California -- Postscript: Modernism and the Cold War -- 18. Theodor Adorno: Criticism as Cultural Nostalgia -- 19. Resuscitating Opera: Alessandro Scarlatti -- 20. Operatic Paradoxes: The Ridiculous and Sublime -- 21. Lost Chords and the Golden Age of Pianism -- Part V. Classical Modernism: Past and Present -- 22. Montaigne: Philosophy as Process -- 23. La Fontaine: The Ethical Power of Style -- 24. The Anatomy Lesson: Melancholy and the Invention of Boredom -- 25. Mallarmé and the Transfiguration of Poetry -- 26. Hofmannsthal and Radical Modernism -- 27. The Private Obsessions of Wystan Auden -- Part VI. Final Cadence, Unresolved -- 28. Old Wisdom and Newfangled Theory: Two One-Way Streets to Disaster -- Credits -- Index of Names and Works.
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| ISBN | 9780674065499
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