دانلود کتاب Freedom and the arts: essays on music and literature

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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.