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Book SynopsisAcknowledgements - Epigraph - Introduction - Music, the Will and Ideas: Mahler and Schopenhauer - Strauss's Transfiguration: A Re-evaluation of Richard Strauss's Music - The Problem of Doctor Faustus: Thomas Mann's Novel and its Implications for Twentieth-Century Composers - Adorno's Philosophy of Modern Music: An Exegesis of Adorno's Essay on Schoenberg - An Essay by Schoenberg: A Commentary on Schoenberg's Essay 'Gustav Mahler' - Chaos, the Machine or the Mystic Word: A Reassessment of Schoenberg's Role as Innovator and Progressive - Palestrina and the Dangerous Futurists: The Significance of Pfitzner's Opera - Schreker's Decline: An Evaluation of the Expressive Content of the Music of this hitherto Neglected Composer - Conclusion - Footnotes - Index
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements - Epigraph - Introduction - Music, the Will and Ideas: Mahler and Schopenhauer - Strauss's Transfiguration: A Re-evaluation of Richard Strauss's Music - The Problem of Doctor Faustus: Thomas Mann's Novel and its Implications for Twentieth-Century Composers - Adorno's Philosophy of Modern Music: An Exegesis of Adorno's Essay on Schoenberg - An Essay by Schoenberg: A Commentary on Schoenberg's Essay 'Gustav Mahler' - Chaos, the Machine or the Mystic Word: A Reassessment of Schoenberg's Role as Innovator and Progressive - Palestrina and the Dangerous Futurists: The Significance of Pfitzner's Opera - Schreker's Decline: An Evaluation of the Expressive Content of the Music of this hitherto Neglected Composer - Conclusion - Footnotes - Index
