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Preface | |
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Music and Sound | |
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Imagining the sound | |
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Romantic paradoxes: the absent melody | |
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Classical and Romantic pedal | |
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Conception and realization | |
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Tone color and structure Fragments | |
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Renewal | |
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The Fragment as Romantic form | |
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Open and closed | |
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Words and music | |
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The emancipation of musical language | |
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Experimental endings and cyclical forms | |
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Ruins | |
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Disorders | |
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Quotations and memories | |
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Absence: the melody suppressed Mountains and Song Cycles | |
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Horn calls | |
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Landscape and music | |
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Landscape and the double time scale | |
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Mountains as ruins | |
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Landscape and memory | |
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Music and memory | |
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Landscape and death: Schubert | |
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The unfinished workings of the past | |
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Song cycles without words Formal Interlude | |
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Mediants | |
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Four-bar phrases Chopin: Counterpoint and the Narrative Forms | |
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Poetic inspiration and craft | |
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Counterpoint and the single line | |
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Narrative form: the ballade | |
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Changes of mode | |
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Italian opera and J. S. Bach Chopin: Virtuosity Transformed | |
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Keyboard exercises | |
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Virtuosity and decoration (salon music?) | |
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Morbid intensity Chopin: From the Miniature Genre to the Sublime Style | |
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Folk music? | |
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Rubato | |
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Modal harmony? | |
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Mazurka as Romantic form | |
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The late mazurkas | |
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Freedom and tradition Liszt: On Creation as Performance | |
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Disreputable greatness | |
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Die Lorelei: the distraction of influence | |
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The Sonata: the distraction of respectability | |
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The invention of Romantic piano sound: the Etudes | |
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Conception and realization | |
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The masks of Liszt | |
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Recomposing: Sonnet no. 104 | |
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Self-Portrait as Don Juan Berlioz: Liberation from the Central European Tradition | |
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Blind idolaters and perfidious critics | |
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Tradition and eccentricity: the idee fixe | |
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Chord color and counterpoint | |
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Long-range harmony and contrapuntal rhythm: the "Scene d'amour" Mendelssohn and the Invention of Religious Kitsch | |
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Mastering Beethoven | |
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Transforming Classicism | |
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Classical form and modern sensibility | |
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Religion in the concert hall | |
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Romantic Opera: Politics, Trash, and High Art | |
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Politics and melodrama | |
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Popular art | |
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Bellini | |
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Meyerbeer Schumann: Triumph and Failure of the Romantic Ideal | |
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The irrational | |
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The inspiration of Beethoven and Clara Wieck | |
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The inspiration of E.T.A. Hoffmann | |
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Out of phase | |
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Lyric intensity | |
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Failure and triumph Index of Names and Works | |