![]() No Ear for Music: The Scary Purity of John Cage / 35. Enter Boris Goudenow, Just 295 Years Late /ģ1. Underneath the Dissonance Beat a Brahmsian Heart / 29. Ezra Pound: A Slim Sound Claim to Musical Immortality / 28. The Danger of Music and the Case for Control /Ģ7. Can We Give Poor Orff a Pass at Last? /Ģ6. Corraling a Herd of Musical Mavericks / 25. A Surrealist Composer Comes to the Rescue of Modernism / 24. Wagner’s Antichrist Crashes a Pagan Party /Ģ3. ![]() Bartók and Stravinsky: Odd Couple Reunited? / 22. Early Music: Truly Old-Fashioned at Last? /Ģ1. ![]() Let’s Rescue Poor Schumann from His Rescuers / 20. In The Rake’s Progress, Love Conquers (Almost) All / 18. Calling All Pundits: No More Predictions! /ġ7. A Sturdy Musical Bridge to the Twenty-first Century / 16. How Talented Composers Become Useless /ġ5. Dispelling the Contagious Wagnerian Mist /ġ3. Six Times Six: A Bach Suite Selection / 11. In Search of the “Good” Hindemith Legacy / 10. Two Stabs at the Universe /Īway with the Ives Myth: The “Universe” Is Here at Last Out of Hibernation: Ives’s Mythical Beast / 55ĩ. A Survivor from the Teutonic Train Wreck / 7. “Nationalism”: Colonialism in Disguise? / 4. Et in Arcadia Ego or, I Didn’t Know I Was Such a Pessimist until I Wrote This Thing (a talk) / 1 From the New York Times, mostlyģ. arthur schopenhauer, Parerga i Paralipomena (1851)ġ. Intellectual life floats ethereally, like a fragrant cloud rising from fermentation, above the reality of the worldly activities which make up the lives of the peoples, governed by the will alongside world history there goes, guiltless and not stained with blood, the history of philosophy, science, and the arts. To James Oestreich and Leon Wieseltier, my co-perpetrators This book is printed on Natures Book, which contains 50% post-consumer waste and meets the minimum requirements of ansi/niso z39.48-1992 (r 1997) (Permanence of Paper). (Roth Family Foundation Music in America imprint) Includes bibliographical references and index. The danger of music and other anti-utopian essays / Richard Taruskin. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Taruskin, Richard. London, England © 2009 by The Regents of the University of California For more information, visit University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles, California University of California Press, Ltd. Its activities are supported by the UC Press Foundation and by philanthropic contributions from individuals and institutions. University of California Press, one of the most distinguished university presses in the United States, enriches lives around the world by advancing scholarship in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. UNIV ERSITY OF CA LIFORNIA PRESS Berkeley The Danger of Music and Other Anti-Utopian Essays The publisher gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the Music in America Endowment Fund of the University of California Press Foundation, which was established by a major gift from Sukey and Gil Garcetti, Michael Roth, and the Roth Family Foundation.
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