Sounding Values: Selected Essays

Contents

• Contents: Introduction
• Part I Theories and Practices: Romantic Aesthetics: Review Essay: E.T.A. Hoffmann's Musical Writings
• Criticism, faith and the idee: A.B. Marx's early reception of Beethoven. Interpreting Historical Theory: Musical and intellectual values: interpreting the history of tonal theory
• Method and motivation in Hugo Riemann's history of harmonic theory
• A.B. Marx and the gendering of sonata form
• Models of musical analysis: form. The State of Play: Approaches to Criticism and Analysis: The criticism of analysis and the analysis of criticism
• Theorists and 'the music itself'
• How music matters: poetic content revisited. Part II Impact and Effect: Critical Takes on Canonic Composers: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven: The second nature of the sonata form
• Haydn and humor
• Mozart's felix culpa: CosA fan tutte and the irony of beauty
• On the beautiful in Mozart
• Our sublime Ninth
• The 4 ages of Beethoven: critical reception and the canonic composer. Schubert, Schumann: Schubert and the sound of memory
• Landscape as music, landscape as truth: Schubert and the burden of repetition
• Novel symphonies, dramatic overtures
• Index.