2. Speaking of Music: In Search of an Idiom

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface: The Thought of Music ix
4. Acknowledgments xix
5. 1. Music and the Forms of Th ought 1
6. 2. Speaking of Music: In Search of an Idiom 23
7. 3. The Ineff able and How (Not) to Say It 45
8. 4. Pleasure and Valuation 65
9. 5. The Cultural Field: Beyond Context 89
10. 6. Virtuosity, Reading, Authorship: A Genealogy 113
11. 7. The Newer Musicology? Context, Performance, and the Musical Work 141
12. Postscript: Imagining the Score 173
13. Notes 181
14. Index of Names 199
15. Index of Concepts 203