Essay Four: Hearing and Knowing Music

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Musical Examples ix
4. Tables xi
5. Acknowledgments xiii
6. Introduction 1
7. PART I. Aesthetics
8. Introduction 9
9. Essay One: The Missing Composer 11
10. Essay Two: The Silent Partner 16
11. Essay Three: The Irrelevance of Tonality? 38
12. Essay Four: Hearing and Knowing Music 49
13. Part II: Opera and Song
14. Essay Five: Mozart’s Deceptions 65
15. Essay Six: Siegfried at the Dragon’s Cave: The Motivic Language of The Ring 80
16. Essay Seven: Schubert’s Heine Songs 106
17. Part III: The Composer as Critic
18. Essay Eight: The Composer as Critic 121
19. Essay Nine: Schubert Criticizes Schubert 135
20. Part IV: Analysis
21. Essay Ten: Schubert’s Symphonic Poem 153
22. Essay Eleven: Debussy’s Art of Suggestion 159
23. Essay Twelve: Stravinsky at the Tomb of Rimsky-Korsakov 170
24. Essay Thirteen: Stravinsky’s Version of Pastoral 181
25. Essay Fourteen: Stravinsky’s Sense of Form 190
26. Published Works of Edward T. Cone 207
27. Index 211