Music and the Historical Imagination

Contents

• Introduction
• 1. History, Criticism, and Beethoven's Ninth Symphony
• 2. "To Worship That Celestial Sound": Motives for Analysis
• 3. Music Analysis in a Historical Context
• 4. On Historical Criticism
• 5. The Present as History
• 6. What Kind of Story Is History?
• 7. Mozart and the Idea of Absolute Music
• 8. Dufay the Progressive
• 9. Wozzeck and the Apocalypse
• 10. The Lulu Character and the Character of Lulu Notes Credits Index