Freedom and the arts : essays on music and literature / Charles Rosen.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Rosen, Charles, 1927-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge : Harvard University Press, c2012.
Subjects:	Music > History and criticism. Literature > History and criticism.

Table of Contents:

The weight of society. Freedom and art
Culture on the market
The future of music
The canon
Mostly Mozart. 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
Centenaries. 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
Postscript: modernism and the Cold War
Theodore Adorno : criticism as cultural nostalgia
Resuscitating opera : Alessandro Scarlatti
Operatic paradoxes : the ridiculous and sublime
Lost chords and the golden age of pianism
Classical modernism : past and present
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
Final cadence, unresolved. Old wisdom and newfangled theory : two one-way streets to disaster.

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