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Author's Preface vii
Editor's Preface xi
Notes on the Artists xv
Part 1 The Sense of Sound
1 The Music that Remains 3
2 Compose Yourself 6
3 The Way We Listen Now 10
4 The Time of Music 13
5 The Music of Time 17
6 'Could I But Express...' 22
7 The Expressionist Moment 26
8 Sight and Sound 29
9 'Fain Would I Change That Note' 32
10 New Notes for Old Instruments 37
11 Survival of the Soundest 41
12 But is it Mozart? (I) 45
Part 2 The Music of Words
1 Setting Words to Rights 51
2 Cross-talk 55
3 The Librettist's Lament 60
4 Notes on Auden 65
Part 3 Composing Mortals
1 After Bach 79
2 Haydn Alone 84
3 But is it Mozart? (II) 87
4 Wagner Takes the Stage 90
5 Brahms and Antipathy 95
6 Poulenc en collage 99
7 The Case of Ruth Crawford Seeger 104
8 In Search of Walton 108
9 The Once and Future Tippett 116
10 The Britten Aesthetic 121
11 Stravinsky's Britten 127
12 Carter's Relativity Rag 134
13 The 'Found Sounds' of Judith Weir 141
Part 4 The States of Music
1 Earlier Than Thou 147
2 Style or Idea? 150
3 Down with Classical Music 153
4 Behind Closed Doors 156
5 Hollywood and Bust 159
6 Blueprints for an Expanding Universe 163
7 Less Means Less 166
8 Reverberations of 1968 169
9 Fear and Loathing of Modern Music 173
10 Voices of the World, Unite! 176
11 Green and Prescient Land 179
12 Deteriorating Reception on the Third 182
13 It's a Cultural Revolution 185
14 Last Waltz? 188
Envoi: In Search of an Ending
1 In Search of an Ending 193
2 It Tolls for Thee 198
3 Echoes from Selborne 201
4 The Rest is Silence 204
Bibliographical Note 211
Index 215
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