- Translator’s Note [Martin Cooper]
- On Reading Boulez [Jean-Jacques Nattiez]
- I. The Shaping Imagination
- Fundamentals
- 1. Aesthetics and the Fetishists
- 2. Taste: ‘The Spectacles Worn by Reason’?
- 3. Putting the Phantoms to Flight
- 4. Time, Notation and Coding
- 5. Form
- 6. Towards a Conclusion
- 7. Periform
- Seeing and Knowing
- 8. The Composer as Critic
- 9. Demythologizing the Conductor
- 10. On Musical Analysis
- 11. The Teacher’s Task
- Frenzy and Organization
- 12. The System Exposed: Polyphonie X and Structures for two pianos
- 13. ‘Sonate, que me veux-tu’: Third Piano Sonata
- 14. Constructing an Improvisation: Deuxiéme Improvisation sur Mallarmé
- 15. Pli selon pli
- 16. Sound, Word, Synthesis
- 17. Poetry—Centre and Absence—Music
- 18. An Interview with Dominique Jameux: Polyphonie X, Structures for two pianos and Poésie pour pouvoir
- Fundamentals
- II. Exemplars
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- 19. Beethoven: Tell Me
- 20. Berlioz and the Realm of the Imaginary
- 21. Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique and Lélio
- 22. Richard Wagner: The Man and the Works
- 23. Cosima Wagner’s Diary: ‘R. is Working’
- 24. Parsifal: The First Encounter
- 25. Wieland Wagner: ‘Here Space Becomes Time’
- 26. Approaches to Parsifal
- 27. The Ring
- Time Re-explored
- A Performer’s Notebook
- 28. Gustav Mahler: Why Biography?
- 29. Mahler: Our Contemporary
- 30. Mahler: Das klagende Lied
- 31. Reflections on Pelléas et Mélisande
- 32. Debussy: Orchestral Works
- 33. Satie: Chien flasque
- 34. Schoenberg the Unloved?
- 35. Speaking, Playing, Singing: Pierrot lunaire and Le Marteau sans maître
- 36. Kandinsky and Schoenberg
- 37. Bartók: Music for strings, percussion and celesta
- 38. Stravinsky: Style or Idea?—In Praise of Amnesia
- 39. Stravinsky: The Firebird
- 40. Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
- 41. The Stravinsky–Webern Conjunction
- 42. Varèse: Hyperprisme, Octandre, Intégrales
- 43. Berg: The Chamber Concerto
- 44. Wozzeck and its Interpretation
- 45. Lulu
- The Second Opera
- Questions of Interpretation
- A Short Postscript on Fidelity
- 46. Olivier Messiaen
- A Class and its Fantasies
- In Retrospect
- Vision and Revolution
- The Utopian Years
- The Power of Example
- 47. Oriental Music: A Lost Paradise?
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- III. Looking Back
- The ‘Domaine muscial’
- 48. First and Second Hearings
- 49. Experiment, Ostriches and Music
- 50. Mini-Editorial
- 51. Ten Years On
- Point of Departure
- 52. Why I Say ‘No’ to Malraux
- Composer and Audience
- 53. Where Are We Now?
- 54. The Bauhaus Model
- 55. Orchestras, Concert Hall, Repertory, Audiences
- 56. Arousing Interest in New Music
- 57. What’s New?
- 58. Freeing Music
- 59. Technology and the Composer
- Tributes
- 60. Wolfgang Steinecke
- Accidental
- From the distance
- 61. Edgard Varèse
- 62. Hermann Scherchen: the Adventurous Patriarch
- 63. Roger Désormière: ‘I Hate Remembering’
- 64. Hans Rosbaud
- The Conductor and his Model
- ‘…to cut me off before night’
- 65. T. W. Adorno
- 66. Heinrich Strobel
- The Friend
- The Intermediary
- 67. Brudno Maderna: A Portrait Sketch
- 60. Wolfgang Steinecke
- The ‘Domaine muscial’
- By Way of Conclusion
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- 68. The Elliptical Geometry of Utopia
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- Index
Orientations
Collected Writings
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Publication Date: 03/01/1990
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