Rosen, Charles, 1927-2012.
Cambridge : Harvard University Press, c2012.
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- Includes index.
- 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! — Frédéric 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 — Mallarmé 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.
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