Freedom and the Arts : Essays on Music and Literature / Charles Rosen.
Rosen, Charles, author.
2012
ML60 .R7849 2012
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Title Freedom and the Arts : Essays on Music and Literature / Charles Rosen.
Author Rosen, Charles, author.
ISBN 9780674065499
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674065499
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2012]
Copyright ©2012
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (410 p.) : 51 music examples
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/harvard.9780674065499 doi
Call Number ML60 .R7849 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification 780.9
Summary Is there a moment in history when a work receives its ideal interpretation? Or is negotiation always required to preserve the past and accommodate the present? The freedom of interpretation, Charles Rosen suggests in these sparkling explorations of music and literature, exists in a delicate balance with fidelity to the identity of the original work.Rosen cautions us to avoid doctrinaire extremes when approaching art of the past. To understand Shakespeare only as an Elizabethan or Jacobean theatergoer would understand him, or to modernize his plays with no sense of what they bring from his age, deforms the work, making it less ambiguous and inherently less interesting. For a work to remain alive, it must change character over time while preserving a valid witness to its earliest state. When twentieth-century scholars transformed Mozart's bland, idealized nineteenth-century image into that of a modern revolutionary expressionist, they paradoxically restored the reputation he had among his eighteenth-century contemporaries. Mozart became once again a complex innovator, challenging to perform and to understand.Drawing on a variety of critical methods, Rosen maintains that listening or reading with intensity-for pleasure-is the one activity indispensable for full appreciation. It allows us to experience multiple possibilities in literature and music, and to avoid recognizing only the revolutionary elements of artistic production. By reviving the sense that works of art have intrinsic merits that bring pleasure, we justify their continuing existence.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Freedom and Art
Chapter 2. Culture on the Market
Chapter 3. The Future of Music
Chapter 4. The Canon
Chapter 5. Dramatic and Tonal Logic in Mozart's Operas
Chapter 6. Mozart's Entry into the Twentieth Century
Chapter 7. The Triumph of Mozart
Chapter 8. Drama and Figured Bass in Mozart's Concertos
Chapter 9. Mozart and Posterity
Chapter 10. Structural Dissonance and the Classical Sonata
Chapter 11. Tradition without Convention
Chapter 12. Felix Mendelssohn at 200: Prodigy without Peer
Chapter 13. Happy Birthday, Elliott Carter!
Chapter 14. Frédéric Chopin, Reactionary and Revolutionary
Chapter 15. Robert Schumann, a Vision of the Future
Chapter 16. The New Grove's Dictionary Returns
Chapter 17. Western Music: The View from California
Postscript: Modernism and the Cold War
Chapter 18. Theodor Adorno: Criticism as Cultural Nostalgia
Chapter 19. Resuscitating Opera: Alessandro Scarlatti
Chapter 20. Operatic Paradoxes: The Ridiculous and Sublime
Chapter 21. Lost Chords and the Golden Age of Pianism
Chapter 22. Montaigne: Philosophy as Process
Chapter 23. La Fontaine: The Ethical Power of Style
Chapter 24. The Anatomy Lesson: Melancholy and the Invention of Boredom
Chapter 25. Mallarmé and the Transfiguration of Poetry
Chapter 26. Hofmannsthal and Radical Modernism
Chapter 27. The Private Obsessions of Wystan Auden
Chapter 28. Old Wisdom and Newfangled Theory: Two One-Way Streets to Disaster
Credits
Index of Names and Works

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