The danger of music and other anti-utopian essays [electronic resource] / Richard Taruskin.
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
c2009.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
Contents:
- Et in arcadia ego, or, I didn't know I was such a pessimist until I wrote this thing
- Only time will cover the taint
- "Nationalism" : colonialism in disguise?
- Why do they all hate Horowitz?
- Optimism amid the rubble
- A survivor from the teutonic train wreck
- Does nature call the tune?
- Two stabs at the universe. Away with the Ives myth : the "universe" is here at last ; Out of hibernation : Ives's mythical beast
- In search of the "good" Hindemith legacy
- Six times six: a Bach suite selection
- A Beethoven season?
- Dispelling the contagious Wagnerian mist
- How talented composers become useless
- Making a stand against sterility
- A sturdy musical bridge to the twenty-first century
- Calling all pundits : no more predictions!
- In the Rake's progress, love conquers all, almost
- Markevitch as Icarus
- Let's rescue poor Schumann from his rescuers
- Early music: truly old-fashioned at last?
- Bartók and Stravinsky: odd couple reunited?
- Wagner's antichrist crashes a pagan party
- A surrealist composer comes to the rescue of modernism
- Corraling a herd of musical mavericks
- Can we give poor Orff a pass at last?
- Music's dangers and the case for control
- Ezra Pound: a slim sound claim to musical immortality
- Underneath the dissonance beat a Brahmsian heart
- Enter Boris Goudenow, just 295 years late
- For the New Republic, mostly
- The first modernist
- The dark side of the moon
- Of kings and divas
- The golden age of kitsch
- No ear for music: the scary purity of John Cage
- Sacred entertainments
- The poietic fallacy
- The musical mystique: defending classical music against its devotees
- Revising revision
- Back to whom? Neoclassicism as ideology
- She do the ring in different voices
- Stravinsky and us
- Setting limits.