The Art of Music and Other Essays: (A Travers Chants)

Contents

• FORWARD BY Jacques Barzun
• Translator's Note
• Acknowledgments
• The Art of Music
• A Critical Study of Beethoven's Nine Symphonies
• A Few Words about the Trios and Sonatas of Beethoven
• Fidelio
• Beethoven in the Rings of Saturn
• The Emoluments of Singers
• The Current State of the Art of Singing
• Good Singers and Bad
• Gluck's Orphee
• Lines Written Soon After the First Performance of Orphee at the Theatre-Lyrique
• The Alceste of Euripides and Those of Quinault and Calzabigi
• The Revival of Gluck's Alceste at the Opera
• Instruments Added by Modern Composers to the Scores of Old Masters
• High and Low Sounds
• Der Freischutz
• Oberon Abu-Hassan; The Abduction from the Seraglio
• The Method Discovered by M. Delsarte for Tuning Instruments
• On Church Music
• Musical Customs of China
• Letter to the Academy of Fine Arts of the Institue
• The Rise in Concert Pitch
• The End Is Near
• The Richard Wagner Concerts
• Sunt Lacrymae Rerum
• The Symphonies of H. Reber; Stephen Heller
• Romeo and Juliet
• Concerning a Ballet Based on Faust
• To Be or Not to Be
• Appendix: The Lapdog School
• Notes
• Index