Hearing and Knowing Music
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Hearing and Knowing Music

The Unpublished Essays of Edward T. Cone

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  2. English
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Hearing and Knowing Music

The Unpublished Essays of Edward T. Cone

About this book

Edward T. Cone was one of the most important and influential music critics of the twentieth century. He was also a master lecturer skilled at conveying his ideas to broad audiences. Hearing and Knowing Music collects fourteen essays that Cone gave as talks in his later years and that were left unpublished at his death. Edited and introduced by Robert Morgan, these essays cover a broad range of topics, including music's position in culture, musical aesthetics, the significance of opera as an art, setting text to music, the nature of twentieth-century harmony and form, and the practice of musical analysis. Fully matching the quality and style of Cone's published writings, these essays mark a critical addition to his work, developing new ideas, such as the composer as critic; clarifying and modifying older positions, especially regarding opera and the nature of sung utterance; and adding new and often unexpected insights on composers and ideas previously discussed by Cone. In addition, there are essays, such as one on Debussy, that lead Cone into areas he had not previously examined. Hearing and Knowing Music represents the final testament of one of our most important writers on music.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. List of Musical Examples
  6. List of Tables
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction
  9. Part I: Aesthetics
  10. Essay One: The Missing Composer
  11. Essay Two: The Silent Partner
  12. Essay Three: The Irrelevance of Tonality?
  13. Essay Four: Hearing and Knowing Music
  14. Part II: Opera and Song
  15. Essay Five: Mozart’s Deceptions
  16. Essay Six: Siegfried at the Dragon’s Cave: The Motivic Language of The Ring
  17. Essay Seven: Schubert’s Heine Songs
  18. Part III: The Composer as Critic
  19. Essay Eight: The Composer as Critic
  20. Essay Nine: Schubert Criticizes Schubert
  21. Part IV: Analysis
  22. Essay Ten: Schubert’s Symphonic Poem
  23. Essay Eleven: Debussy’s Art of Suggestion
  24. Essay Twelve: Stravinsky at the Tomb of Rimsky-Korsakov
  25. Essay Thirteen: Stravinsky’s Version of Pastoral
  26. Essay Fourteen: Stravinsky’s Sense of Form
  27. Published Works of Edward T. Cone
  28. Index