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Freedom and the Arts : : Essays on Music and Literature / / Charles Rosen.

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Is there a moment in history when a work receives its ideal interpretation? Or is negotiation always required to preserve the past and accommodate the present? The freedom of interpretation, Charles Rosen suggests in these sparkling explorations of music and literature, exists in a delicate balance...

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Rosen, Charles,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (410 p.) :; 51 music examples
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Freedom and Art
  • Chapter 2. Culture on the Market
  • Chapter 3. The Future of Music
  • Chapter 4. The Canon
  • Chapter 5. Dramatic and Tonal Logic in Mozart's Operas
  • Chapter 6. Mozart's Entry into the Twentieth Century
  • Chapter 7. The Triumph of Mozart
  • Chapter 8. Drama and Figured Bass in Mozart's Concertos
  • Chapter 9. Mozart and Posterity
  • Chapter 10. Structural Dissonance and the Classical Sonata
  • Chapter 11. Tradition without Convention
  • Chapter 12. Felix Mendelssohn at 200: Prodigy without Peer
  • Chapter 13. Happy Birthday, Elliott Carter!
  • Chapter 14. Frédéric Chopin, Reactionary and Revolutionary
  • Chapter 15. Robert Schumann, a Vision of the Future
  • Chapter 16. The New Grove's Dictionary Returns
  • Chapter 17. Western Music: The View from California
  • Postscript: Modernism and the Cold War
  • Chapter 18. Theodor Adorno: Criticism as Cultural Nostalgia
  • Chapter 19. Resuscitating Opera: Alessandro Scarlatti
  • Chapter 20. Operatic Paradoxes: The Ridiculous and Sublime
  • Chapter 21. Lost Chords and the Golden Age of Pianism
  • Chapter 22. Montaigne: Philosophy as Process
  • Chapter 23. La Fontaine: The Ethical Power of Style
  • Chapter 24. The Anatomy Lesson: Melancholy and the Invention of Boredom
  • Chapter 25. Mallarmé and the Transfiguration of Poetry
  • Chapter 26. Hofmannsthal and Radical Modernism
  • Chapter 27. The Private Obsessions of Wystan Auden
  • Chapter 28. Old Wisdom and Newfangled Theory: Two One-Way Streets to Disaster
  • Credits
  • Index of Names and Works

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