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Freedom and the arts : essays on music and literature /
Is there a moment in history when a work receives its ideal interpretation? Or is negotiation always required to preserve the past and accommodate the present? The freedom of interpretation, Charles Rosen suggests in these sparkling explorations of music and literature, exists in a delicate balance...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
©2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The weight of society
- Freedom and art
- Culture on the market
- The future of music
- The canon
- Dramatic and tonal logic in Mozart's operas
- Mozart's entry into the twentieth century
- The triumph of Mozart
- Drama and figured bass in Mozart's concertos
- Mozart and posterity
- Structural dissonance and the classical sonata
- Tradition without convention
- Felix Mendelssohn at 200 : prodigy without peer
- Happy birthday, Elliott Carter!
- Frédéric Chopin, reactionary and revolutionary
- Robert Schumann, a vision of the future
- Long perspectives
- The New Grove's dictionary returns
- Western music : the view from California
- Theodore Adorno : criticism as cultural nostalgia
- Resuscitating opera : Alessandro Scarlatti
- Operatic paradoxes : the ridiculous and sublime
- Lost chords and the golden age of pianism
- Montaigne : philosophy as process
- La Fontaine : the ethical power of style
- The anatomy lesson : melancholy and the invention of boredom
- Mallarmé and the transfiguration of poetry
- Hoffmansthal and radical modernism
- The private obsessions of Wystan Auden
- Old wisdom and newfangled theory : two one-way streets to disaster.