Critical Entertainments

Music Old and New

Charles Rosen

    Introduction

    I Performance and Musicology

    1. The Aesthetics of Stage Fright

    2. The Discipline of Philology: Oliver Strunk

    II The Eighteenth Century

    3. Keyboard Music of Bach and Handel

    4. The Rediscovering of Haydn

    5. Describing Mozart

    6. Beaumarchais: Inventor of Modern Opera

    7. Radical, Conventional Mozart

    8. Beethoven's Career

    III Brahms

    9. Brahms: Influence, Plagiarism, and Inspiration

    10. Brahms the Subversive

    11. Brahms: Classicism and the Inspiration of Awkwardness

    IV Musical Studies: Contrasting Views

    12. The Benefits of Authenticity

    13. Dictionaries: the Old Harvard

    14. Dictionaries: the New Grove's

    15. The New Musicology

    V The Crisis of the Modern

    16. Schoenberg: The Possibilities of Disquiet

    17. The Performance of Contemporary Music: Carter's Double Concerto

    18. The Irrelevance of Serious Music

    Credits

    Index

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Charles Rosen is a pianist and Professor Emeritus of Music and Social Thought at the University of Chicago. In addition to The Classical Style, which won the National Book Award, his previous books include Sonata Forms and Romanticism and Realism (with Henri Zerner).