Originally published: 2009.
Et in arcadia ego, or, I didn't know I was such a pessimist until I wrote this thing
Only time will cover the taint
"Nationalism" : colonialism in disguise?
Why do they all hate Horowitz?
Optimism amid the rubble
A survivor from the teutonic train wreck
Does nature call the tune?
Two stabs at the universe. Away with the Ives myth : the "universe" is here at last ; Out of hibernation : Ives's mythical beast
In search of the "good" Hindemith legacy
Six times six : a Bach suite selection
A Beethoven season?
Dispelling the contagious Wagnerian mist
How talented composers become useless
Making a stand against sterility
A sturdy musical bridge to the twenty-first century
Calling all pundits : no more predictions!
In the Rake's progress, love conquers all, almost
Markevitch as Icarus
Let's rescue poor Schumann from his rescuers
Early music : truly old-fashioned at last?
Bartók and Stravinsky : odd couple reunited?
Wagner's antichrist crashes a pagan party
A surrealist composer comes to the rescue of modernism
Corraling a herd of musical mavericks
Can we give poor Orff a pass at last?
Music's dangers and the case for control
Ezra Pound : a slim sound claim to musical immortality
Underneath the dissonance beat a Brahmsian heart
Enter Boris Goudenow, just 295 years late
For the New Republic, mostly
The first modernist
The dark side of the moon
Of kings and divas
The golden age of kitsch
No ear for music : the scary purity of John Cage
Sacred entertainments
The poietic fallacy
The musical mystique : defending classical music against its devotees
Revising revision
Back to whom? Neoclassicism as ideology
She do the ring in different voices
Stravinsky and us
Setting limits.
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The danger of music : and other anti-utopian essays by Richard Taruskin. ISBN 9780520268050. Published by University of California Press in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
