Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part One. The Weight of Society
6. Chapter 1. Freedom and Art 7
7. Chapter 2. Culture on the Market 15
8. Chapter 3. The Future of Music 24
9. Chapter 4. The Canon 39
10. Part Two. Mostly Mozart
11. Chapter 5. Dramatic and Tonal Logic in Mozart’s Operas 51
12. Chapter 6. Mozart’s Entry into the Twentieth Century 64
13. Chapter 7. The Triumph of Mozart 73
14. Chapter 8. Drama and Figured Bass in Mozart’s Concertos 79
15. Chapter 9. Mozart and Posterity 114
16. Chapter 10. Structural Dissonance and the Classical Sonata 121
17. Chapter 11. Tradition without Convention 135
18. Part Three. Centenaries
19. Chapter 12. Felix Mendelssohn at 200: Prodigy without Peer 171
20. Chapter 13. Happy Birthday, Elliott Carter! 178
21. Chapter 14. Frédéric Chopin, Reactionary and Revolutionary 187
22. Chapter 15. Robert Schumann, a Vision of the Future 193
23. Part Four. Long Perspectives
24. Chapter 16. The New Grove’s Dictionary Returns 203
25. Chapter 17. Western Music: The View from California 210
26. Postscript: Modernism and the Cold War 240
27. Chapter 18. Theodor Adorno: Criticism as Cultural Nostalgia 248
28. Chapter 19. Resuscitating Opera: Alessandro Scarlatti 264
29. Chapter 20. Operatic Paradoxes: The Ridiculous and Sublime 278
30. Chapter 21. Lost Chords and the Golden Age of Pianism 290
31. Part Five. Classical Modernism: Past and Present
32. Chapter 22. Montaigne: Philosophy as Process 303
33. Chapter 23. La Fontaine: The Ethical Power of Style 319
34. Chapter 24. The Anatomy Lesson: Melancholy and the Invention of Boredom 339
35. Chapter 25. Mallarmé and the Transfiguration of Poetry 353
36. Chapter 26. Hofmannsthal and Radical Modernism 368
37. Chapter 27. The Private Obsessions of Wystan Auden 383
38. Part Six. Final Cadence, Unresolved
39. Chapter 28. Old Wisdom and Newfangled Theory: Two One-Way Streets to Disaster 397
40. Credits. Index
41. Credits 423
42. Index of Names and Works 425