Music and the Historical Imagination
- Author: Treitler, Leo
[Treitler] argues for art as multilevel affirmative action... Treitler's argument [is] buttressed, amplified, and intensified in beautifully fashioned essays —
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Contents
- Introduction
- 1. History, Criticism, and Beethoven's Ninth Symphony
- 2. "To Worship That Celestial Sound": Motives for Analysis
- 3. Music Analysis in a Historical Context
- 4. On Historical Criticism
- 5. The Present as History
- 6. What Kind of Story Is History?
- 7. Mozart and the Idea of Absolute Music
- 8. Dufay the Progressive
- 9. Wozzeck and the Apocalypse
- 10. The Lulu Character and the Character of Lulu Notes Credits Index