Music, Structure, Thought: Selected Essays

Contents

• Contents: Introduction
• Complete bibliography
• Part 1 Historiography, History, Methodology: The Dahlhaus project and its extra-musicological sources
• Beethoven reception: the symphonic tradition
• Some grounding principles of sonata theory. Part 2 Italian Operwa: Ottocento opera as cultural drama: generic mixtures in Il Trovatore
• Staging Verdi's operas: the single 'correct' performance
• Operatic stagings: positions and paradoxes: a reply to David J. Levin
• Structure, implication and the end of Suor Angelica
• Un bel dA? Vedremo! Anatomy of a delusion. Part 3 Structure and Content: Shorter Essays: Formulaic openings in Debussy
• Culture clash
• Masculine/feminine
• Temps perdu. Part 4 Symphonic Readings: Fiery-pulsed libertine or domestic hero? Strauss's Don Juan reinvestigated
• Framing Till Eulenspiegel
• Gaudery, romance and the 'Welsh' tune: Introduction and Allegro, Op. 47
• Index.