Critical Musicology and the Responsibility of Response: Selected Essays
- Author: Kramer, Lawrence
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Contents
- Contents: Introduction
- Selected bibliography
- Tropes and windows: an outline of musical hermaneutics (1990)
- Decadence and desire: the 'Wilhelm Meister' songs of Wolf and Schubert
- Dangerous Liaisons: the literary text in musical criticism
- Music criticism and the postmodern turn: in contrary motion with Gary Tomlinson
- Charging the Canons
- The strange case of Beethoven's 'Coriolan' : romantic aesthetics, modern subjectivity, and the cult of Shakespeare
- The harem threshold: Turkish music and Greek love in Beethoven's 'Ode to Joy'
- Primitive encounters: Beethoven's 'Tempest' sonata, musical meaning, and enlightenment anthropology
- Tolstoy's Beethoven, Beethoven's Tolstoy: the Kreutzer sonata
- Like falling leaves: the erotics of mourning in four drum taps settings
- Chopin at the funeral: episodes in the history of modern death
- Recognizing Schubert: musical subjectivity, cultural change and Jane Campion's The Portrait of a Lady
- Haydn's chaos, Schenker's order
- or, musical meaning and musical analysis: can they mix?
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- Speaking melody, melodic speech
- 'Longindying Call': of music, modernity, and the Sirens 'Au-delA d'une musique informelle': nostalgia, obsolescence, and the avant-garde
- Index.