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In this sequel to her last book "Developing Variations", Rose Rosengard Subotnik continues her work on musicology. Her concerns are both formal and sociological, linking music to social and cultural contexts and breaking down the barriers between music and life.

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Whose magic flute? - intimations of reality at the gates of the enlightenment; how could Chopin's "A-Major Prelude" be deconstructed?; towards a deconstruction of structural listening - a critique of Schoenberg, Adorno, and Stravinsky; the closing of the American dream? - a musical perspective on Allan Bloom, Spike Lee, and doing the right thing.

Deconstructive Variations Music and Reason in

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      Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 28/12/1995
      ISBN13: 9780816621989, 978-0816621989
      ISBN10: 0816621985

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In this sequel to her last book "Developing Variations", Rose Rosengard Subotnik continues her work on musicology. Her concerns are both formal and sociological, linking music to social and cultural contexts and breaking down the barriers between music and life.

      Table of Contents
      Whose magic flute? - intimations of reality at the gates of the enlightenment; how could Chopin's "A-Major Prelude" be deconstructed?; towards a deconstruction of structural listening - a critique of Schoenberg, Adorno, and Stravinsky; the closing of the American dream? - a musical perspective on Allan Bloom, Spike Lee, and doing the right thing.

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