Music: A View from Delft. Selected Essays Book

Preface
Introduction
1. Aesthetics, Criticism, and Analysis
Music: A View from Delft
Musical Theory as a Humanistic Discipline
Analysis Today
Beyond Analysis
Three Ways of Reading a Detective Story—Or a Brahms Intermezzo
The Authority of Music Criticism
2. Music and Words
Words into Music: The Composer's Approach to the Text
The World of Opera and Its Inhabitants
Berlioz's Divine Comedy: The Grande messe des morts
The Old Man's Toys: Verdi's Last Operas
3. Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Masters
Beethoven's Experiments in Composition: The Late Bagatelles
Schubert's Unfinished Business
Inside the Saint's Head: The Music of Berlioz
Sound and Syntax: An Introduction to Schoenberg's Harmony
Webern's Apprenticeship
The Uses of Convention: Stravinsky and His Models
Stravinsky: The Progress of a Method
In Defense of Song: The Contribution of Roger Sessions
Edward T. Cone: A Chronological Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index