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Book SynopsisA selection of the author's critical essays on music, which includes an analysis of Beethoven's obsession with the key of C minor, an account of William Byrd as a spokesman for the Elizabethan Catholic minority, and papers on the operas Don Giovanni, The Magic Flute and Tristan and Isolde.
Table of ContentsPreface
CRITICISM
1 A Profile for American Musicology
2 How We Got into Analysis, and How to Get Out
3 A Few Canonic Variations
4 Critics and the Classics
BYRD, TALLIS, ALFONSO FERRABOSCO
5 William Byrd and Elizabethan Catholicism
6 Byrd, Tallis, and the Art of Imitation
7 "Write All These Down": Notes on a Song by Byrd
8 The Missa Puer natus est by Thomas Tallis
9 An Italian Musician in Elizabethan England
BEETHOVEN
10 Tovey's Beethoven
11 An die ferne Geliebte
12 Taking the Fifth
13 Beethoven's Minority
OPERA AND CONCERTO
14 Translating The Magic Flute
15 Wagner: Thoughts in Season
16 Verdi's Use of Recurring Themes
17 Two Early Verdi Operas; Two Famous Terzetti
18 Reading Don Giovanni
19 Mozart's Piano Concertos and Their Audience
20 Tristan und Isolde: The Prelude and the Play
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