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Illustrations figures 1. Book-of-the-Month Club ad for Beethoven String Quartets, 1957 66 2. Music Treasures of the World record sleeve, c. 1960 70 3. Bergson’s model for free choice 75 4. Bergson’s model for the totality of memory 81 5. Gould’s 1955 recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations 132 6. Zenph “re-performance” of Gould’s 1955 Goldberg Variations 136 7. Ad for first Philips CD player, 1983 139 8. “The spectrum of intervention” in audio remastering 152 9. “Ceci est un marteau” (This is a hammer): an example of Mahler’s treachery of images 233 10a–b. The dying Aschenbach watches Tadzio in Visconti’s Death in Venice, final scene 241 11. Alma becomes Gustav’s shadow in Russell’s Mahler 243 musical examples 1. Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 4, first movement, second theme 82 2. J. S. Bach, Goldberg Variations, var. 19, Dmitry Sitkovetsky’s arrangement for string trio 114 3. Mahler, Symphony No. 7, first movement 236 ix This page intentionally left blank ...

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