Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction xiii
5. Abbreviations xxi
6. Prologue. An Unlikely Genre: The Rise of the Symphony 1
7. Chapter 1. Listening with Imagination: The Revolution in Aesthetics 5
8. Chapter 2. Listening as Thinking: From Rhetoric to Philosophy 29
9. Chapter 3. Listening to Truth: Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony 44
10. Chapter 4. Listening to the Aesthetic State: Cosmopolitanism 63
11. Chapter 5. Listening to the German State: Nationalism 79
12. Epilogue. Listening to Form: The Refuge of Absolute Music 104
13. Notes 117
14. Bibliography 153
15. Index 167