- Preface
- Music and Sound
- Imagining the sound
- Romantic paradoxes: the absent melody
- Classical and Romantic pedal
- Conception and realization
- Tone color and structure
- Fragments
- Renewal
- The Fragment as Romantic form
- Open and closed
- Words and music
- The emancipation of musical language
- Experimental endings and cyclical forms
- Ruins
- Disorders
- Quotations and memories
- Absence: the melody suppressed
- Mountains and Song Cycles
- Horn calls
- Landscape and music
- Landscape and the double time scale
- Mountains as ruins
- Landscape and memory
- Music and memory
- Landscape and death: Schubert
- The unfinished workings of the past
- Song cycles without words
- Formal Interlude
- Mediants
- Four-bar phrases
- Chopin: Counterpoint and the Narrative Forms
- Poetic inspiration and craft
- Counterpoint and the single line
- Narrative form: the ballade
- Changes of mode
- Italian opera and J.S. Bach
- Chopin: Virtuosity Transformed
- Keyboard exercises
- Virtuosity and decoration (salon music?)
- Morbid intensity
- Chopin: From the Miniature Genre to the Sublime Style
- Folk music?
- Rubato
- Modal harmony?
- Mazurka as Romantic form
- The late mazurkas
- Freedom and tradition
- Liszt: On Creation as Performance
- Disreputable greatness
- Die Lorelei: the distraction of influence
- The Sonata: the distraction of respectability
- The invention of Romantic piano sound: the Etudes
- Conception and realization
- The masks of Liszt
- Recomposing: Sonnet no. 104
- Self-Portrait as Don Juan
- Berlioz: Liberation from the Central European Tradition
- Blind idolaters and perfidious critics
- Tradition and eccentricity: the idée fixe
- Chord color and counterpoint
- Long-range harmony and contrapuntal rhythm: the “Scène d’amour”
- Mendelssohn and the Invention of Religious Kitsch
- Mastering Beethoven
- Transforming Classicism
- Classical form and modern sensibility
- Religion in the concert hall
- Romantic Opera: Politics, Trash, and High Art
- Politics and melodrama
- Popular art
- Bellini
- Meyerbeer
- Schumann: Triumph and Failure of the Romantic Ideal
- The irrational
- The inspiration of Beethoven and Clara Wieck
- The inspiration of E.T.A. Hoffmann
- Out of phase
- Lyric intensity
- Failure and triumph
- Index of Names and Works
THE CHARLES ELIOT NORTON LECTURES
The Romantic Generation
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$34.00 • £29.95 • €30.95
ISBN 9780674779341
Publication Date: 09/15/1998
Awards & Accolades
- Charles Rosen Is a 2011 National Humanities Medal Winner
- 1996 Otto Kinkeldey Award, American Musicological Society
- 1996 ASCAP Deems Taylor Award, American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
- 1995 Association of American Publishers Professional and Scholarly Publishing Award, Arts Category
- A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, 1995
- Yorkshire Post Music Book of the Year Award
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