In his 1985 book The Idea of Music: Schoenberg and Others, Peter Franklin set out a
challenge for musicology: namely, how best to talk and write about the music of modern
European culture that fell outside of the modernist mainstream typified by Schoenberg, Berg,
and Webern? Thirty years on, this collected volume of essays by Franklin's students and
colleagues returns to that challenge and the vibrant intellectual field that has since
developed. Moving freely between insights into opera, Volksoper, film, festival, and choral …