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Freedom and the arts essays on music and literature
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Title
Freedom and the arts [electronic resource] : essays on music and literature / Charles Rosen.
ISBN
0674047524
9780674047525
9780674065499 (e-book)
Edition
1st ed.
Published
Cambridge : Harvard University Press, c2012.
Physical Description
viii, 438 p. : ill.,.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 09, 2013
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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!
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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