Musical Meaning and Human Values

Contents

c o n t e n t s List of Examples and Figures vii Introduction lawrence kramer 1 1. Due Rose, Due Volte: A Study of Early Modern Subjectivities susan mcclary 10 2. Sublime Experience and Ironic Action: E. T. A. Hoffmann and the Use of Music for Life keith chapin 32 3. The Devoted Ear: Music as Contemplation lawrence kramer 59 4. Music and Fantasy marshall brown 79 5. Whose Brahms Is It Anyway? Observations on the Recorded Legacy of the B♭ Piano Concerto, Op. 83 walter frisch 102 6. The Civilizing Process: Music and the Aesthetics of TimeSpace Relations in The Girl of the Golden West richard leppert 116 7. A Farewell, a Femme Fatale, and a Film: Three Awkward Moments in Twentieth-Century Music peter franklin 150 8. ‘‘Pour Out . . . Forgiveness Like a Wine’’: Can Music ‘‘Say an Existence Is Wrong’’? walter bernhart 170 Notes 185 Contributors 223 Index of Works 225 v ...