Contents

• Author’s Preface
• Editor’s Preface
• Notes on the Drawings

Part One: The Sense of Sound

1. The Music That Remains
2. Compose Yourself
3. The Way We Listen Now
   
4. The Time of Music
5. The Music of Time
6. ‘Could I But Express …’
7. The Expressionist Moment
8. Sight and Sound
9. ‘Fain Would I Change That Note’
10. New Notes for Old Instruments
11. Survival of the Soundest
12. But is it Mozart? (I)
    

Part Two: The Music of Words

1. Setting Words to Rights
2. Cross-talk
3. The Librettist’s Lament
4. Notes on Auden

Part Three: Composing Mortals

1. After Bach
2. Haydn Alone
3. But is it Mozart? (II)
4. Wagner Takes the Stage
5. Brahms and Antipathy
6. Poulenc en collage
7. The Case of Ruth Crawford Seeger
8. In Search of Walton
9. The Once and Future Tippett
10. The Britten Aesthetic
11. Stravinsky’s Britten
12. Carter’s Relativity Rag
13. The ‘Found Sounds’ of Judith Weir

Part Four: The States of Music

1. Earlier Than Thou
2. Style or Idea?
3. Down with Classical Music
4. Behind Closed Doors
5. Hollywood and Bust
6. Blueprints for an Expanding Universe
7. Less Means Less
8. Reverberations of 1968
9. Fear and Loathing of Modern Music
10. Voices of the World, Unite!
11. Green and Prescient Land
12. Deteriorating Reception on the Third
13. It’s a Cultural Revolution
14. Last Waltz?

Envoi: In Search of an Ending

1. In Search of an Ending
2. It Tolls for Thee
3. Echoes from Selborne
4. The Rest is Silence
   

• Biographical Note
  
  
• Index

see also:

• introduction
• publication details and contents
• excerpts from the book