TABLE OF CONTENTS: List of Musical Examples ix
List of Tables xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1
Part I: Aesthetics 7
Essay One: The Missing Composer 11
Essay Two: The Silent Partner 16
Essay Three: The Irrelevance of Tonality? 38
Essay Four: Hearing and Knowing Music 49
Part II: Opera and Song 61
Essay Five: Mozart's Deceptions 65
Essay Six: Siegfried at the Dragon's Cave: The Motivic Language of The Ring 80
Essay Seven: Schubert's Heine Songs 106
Part III: The Composer as Critic 117
Essay Eight: The Composer as Critic 121
Essay Nine: Schubert Criticizes Schubert 135
Part IV: Analysis 149
Essay Ten: Schubert's Symphonic Poem 153
Essay Eleven: Debussy's Art of Suggestion 159
Essay Twelve: Stravinsky at the Tomb of Rimsky-Korsakov 170
Essay Thirteen: Stravinsky's Version of Pastoral 181
Essay Fourteen: Stravinsky's Sense of Form 190
Published Works of Edward T. Cone 207
Index 211
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