Essays on Music

Contents

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• A Note on the Text
• Introduction
• Part I . Criticism:
• 1. Problems in writing about music
• 2. Resistances to Britten's music: their psychology
• 3. National frontiers in music
• 4. Sport and art: the concept of mastery
• 5. Music and psychopathology
• Part II . Composers and Their Music:
• 6. Art as departure (Haydn)
• 7. New Music: Beethoven's Choral Fantasy
• 8. Schubert: tune and melody
• 9. Little known greatness (Mendelssohn and Mozart)
• 10. Schumann was a symphonist
• 11. Tristan and the realism of adolescence (Wagner)
• 12. Resistances to Brahms
• 13. Elgar the progressive
• 14. The unpopularity of Mahler's popularity
• 15. The sentimental violin (Glazounov)
• 16. The 'Lucky' Hand and other errors (Schoenberg)
• 17. Natural master (Schmidt)
• 18. Schoenberg: A Survivor from Warsaw
• 19. Film music: The Harry Lime theme (Karas and Weill)
• 20. Matyas Seiber 1905-1960
• 21. Gloriana as music drama (a reaffirmation) (Britten)
• 22. Shostakovich's Twelfth Quartet
• 23. Stravinsky v. Stravinsky
• 24. The state of the symphony: not only Maxwell Davies's
• 25. Britten's last masterpiece
• 26. The Man and the Music (Simpson)
• Part III . Towards a Theory of Music:
• 27. Towards a theory of music
• 28. The musical analysis of music
• 29. Functional Analysis No. 9A: Mozart's Piano Sonata in A minor, K 310
• 30. A slip of Mozart's: Its analytical significance (1956/57)
• 31. Knowing things backwards
• 32. Mozart's wrong key signature
• 33. Key characteristics
• 34. Strict serial technique in classical music
• 35. Schoenberg: the future of symphonic thought
• 36. Whose fault is the speaking voice? 37. Why this piece is about Billy Budd
• 38. Rhythm: Gershwin and Stravinsky
• 39. Principles of composition
• Notes
• Index.