Description
Book SynopsisEdward T Cone was one of the most important and influential music critics of the twentieth century. He was also a master lecturer skilled at conveying his ideas to broad audiences. This title collects fourteen essays that Cone gave as talks in his later years. It represents the final testament of one of our most important writers on music.
Trade Review"While eclectic in its subject matter, this invaluable collection of Cone's final essays offers a great deal to readers. Whether the essays arguably reflect autumnal or emerging ideas, Cone's astonishing clarity of exposition and openness, his intellectual reach, and continual self-reflexivity ... almost make his writing seem timeless in its appeal for musicians and music scholars across the disciplinary spectrum."--David Trippett, Fontes Artis Musicae
Table of ContentsList of Musical Examples ix List of Tables xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 Part I: Aesthetics 7 Essay One: The Missing Composer 11 Essay Two: The Silent Partner 16 Essay Three: The Irrelevance of Tonality? 38 Essay Four: Hearing and Knowing Music 49 Part II: Opera and Song 61 Essay Five: Mozart's Deceptions 65 Essay Six: Siegfried at the Dragon's Cave: The Motivic Language of The Ring 80 Essay Seven: Schubert's Heine Songs 106 Part III: The Composer as Critic 117 Essay Eight: The Composer as Critic 121 Essay Nine: Schubert Criticizes Schubert 135 Part IV: Analysis 149 Essay Ten: Schubert's Symphonic Poem 153 Essay Eleven: Debussy's Art of Suggestion 159 Essay Twelve: Stravinsky at the Tomb of Rimsky-Korsakov 170 Essay Thirteen: Stravinsky's Version of Pastoral 181 Essay Fourteen: Stravinsky's Sense of Form 190 Published Works of Edward T. Cone 207 Index 211
