Music and Sentimentalism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Contents

• 1.Introduction: Getting Sentimental
• Part 1: Spaces
• 2. Sentimental virtues in the Victorian Salon: Joseph Joachim on the lawn and in the lounge.
• 3. Feeling and Design Magnified: the place and status of sentimental music in the nineteenth-century concert hall.
• Part 2: Genres
• 4. Sentimental Waltzes: tender steps from Goethe to Ravel.
• 5. Longing to Belong: Nationalism, sentimentalism, and the Second Violin
• Concertos of Bartok and Szymanowski.
• Part 3: Psychologies
• 6. Sentimentalism and Masochism: Barthes's Schumann and Schumann's 'Chopin'.
• 7. Two Sentimental English Gentlemen: 'screen memories', a Schubert lied and the
• voice of Gracie Fields in Merchant-Ivory's The Remains of the Day.
• Part 4: Appropriations
• 8. Ellington, Liszt , and Chopin's Death Bed .
• 9. Chopin on the Beach: Bossa nova, Tom Jobim's 'Insensatez', and sentimental
• ecology.
• 10. Chopin and the Power Ballad: Barry Manilow's 'Could it be Magic?'
• Part 5: Sympathies
• 11. Make it 'Easy'? Sentimental subject positions in songs of Burt Bacharach and Hal
• David.
• 12. Homes and Roads: the song writing of Carole King and Jimmy Webb.
• Coda: Compassion, Mediation and the Consumer
• 13. Gorecki's Tears/ Our Tears.