The danger of music and other anti-utopian essays
By: Richard Taruskin.
Series: Roth Family Foundation Music in America imprint
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 488
ISBN-13: 9780520249776
Subjects: Musical criticism
Other titles: New York times.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Et in arcadia ego, or, I didn't know I was such a pessimist until I wrote this thing; title: Only time will cover the taint; title: "Nationalism" : colonialism in disguise?; title: Why do they all hate Horowitz?; title: Optimism amid the rubble; title: A survivor from the teutonic train wreck; title: Does nature call the tune?; title: Two stabs at the universe. Away with the Ives myth : the "universe" is here at last ; Out of hibernation : Ives's mythical beast; title: In search of the "good" Hindemith legacy; title: Six times six : a Bach suite selection; title: A Beethoven season?; title: Dispelling the contagious Wagnerian mist; title: How talented composers become useless; title: Making a stand against sterility; title: A sturdy musical bridge to the twenty-first century; title: Calling all pundits : no more predictions!; title: In the Rake's progress, love conquers all, almost; title: Markevitch as Icarus; title: Let's rescue poor Schumann from his rescuers; title: Early music : truly old-fashioned at last?; title: Bartók and Stravinsky : odd couple reunited?; title: Wagner's antichrist crashes a pagan party; title: A surrealist composer comes to the rescue of modernism; title: Corraling a herd of musical mavericks; title: Can we give poor Orff a pass at last?; title: Music's dangers and the case for control; title: Ezra Pound : a slim sound claim to musical immortality; title: Underneath the dissonance beat a Brahmsian heart; title: Enter Boris Goudenow, just 295 years late; title: For the New Republic, mostly; title: The first modernist; title: The dark side of the moon; title: Of kings and divas; title: The golden age of kitsch; title: No ear for music : the scary purity of John Cage; title: Sacred entertainments; title: The poietic fallacy; title: The musical mystique : defending classical music against its devotees; title: Revising revision; title: Back to whom? Neoclassicism as ideology; title: She do the ring in different voices; title: Stravinsky and us; title: Setting limits.