Rosen, Charles,  1927-2012. <br/><br/>
Freedom and the Arts  essays on music and literature / 
Charles Rosen. 
 - Cambridge, Mass. :  Harvard University Press,  (c)2012. 
 - 1 online resource (vii, 438 pages) :  illustrations. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>The weight of society --  Freedom and art --  Culture on the market --  The future of music --  The canon --  Dramatic and tonal logic in Mozart's operas --  Mozart's entry into the twentieth century --  The triumph of Mozart --  Drama and figured bass in Mozart's concertos --  Mozart and posterity --  Structural dissonance and the classical sonata --  Tradition without convention --  Felix Mendelssohn at 200 : prodigy without peer --  Happy birthday, Elliott Carter! --  Frédéric Chopin, reactionary and revolutionary --  Robert Schumann, a vision of the future --  Long perspectives --  The New Grove's dictionary returns --  Western music : the view from California --  Theodore Adorno : criticism as cultural nostalgia --  Resuscitating opera : Alessandro Scarlatti --  Operatic paradoxes : the ridiculous and sublime --  Lost chords and the golden age of pianism --  Montaigne : philosophy as process --  La Fontaine : the ethical power of style --  The anatomy lesson : melancholy and the invention of boredom --  Mallarmé and the transfiguration of poetry --  Hoffmansthal and radical modernism --  The private obsessions of Wystan Auden --  Old wisdom and newfangled theory : two one-way streets to disaster. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780674065499 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Music--History and criticism.<br/>Literature--History and criticism.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>ML60  / .F744 2012