Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I. Reception & Politics
5. 1. Intention and Meaning in Modernist Music 23
6. 2. The End of the Mannerist Century 46
7. 3. A Fine Analysis 54
8. 4. In Memory of a Receding Dialectic: The Political Relevance of Autonomy and Formalism in Modernist Musical Aesthetics 68
9. Part II. Metaphors for Modernism
10. 5. Twentieth-Century Tonality, or, Breaking Up Is Hard to Do 103
11. 6. “Tone-Color, Movement, Changing Harmonic Planes”: Cognition, Constraints and Conceptual Blends in Modernist Music 121
12. 7. Sexual and Musical Categories 153
13. 8. Listening to Schizophrenia: The Wozzeck Case 176
14. Part III. Writing & Listening
15. 9. The Musician Writes: For the Eyes of the Deaf? 197
16. 10. “Are You Sure You Can’t Hear It?”: Some Informal Reflections on Simple Information and Listening 223
17. Part IV. Case Study
18. 11. A Fine Madness 253
19. 12. “One Man’s Signal Is Another Man’s Noise”: Personal Encounters with Post-Tonal Music 259
20. Part V. Belated Modernism
21. 13. The “Modernization” of Rock & Roll, 1965–75 277
22. 14. Refiguring the Modernist Program for Hearing: Steve Reich and George Rochberg 325
23. 15. Modernism Goes to the Movies 345
24. List of Contributors 387
25. Index 391