Music and the Historical Imagination

Leo Treitler is Distinguished Professor of Music at The Graduate Center, City University of New York.

• Introduction 1. History, Criticism, and Beethoven's Ninth Symphony 2. "To Worship That Celestial Sound": Motives for Analysis 3. Music Analysis in a Historical Context 4. On Historical Criticism 5. The Present as History 6. What Kind of Story Is History? 7. Mozart and the Idea of Absolute Music 8. Dufay the Progressive 9. Wozzeck and the Apocalypse 10. The Lulu Character and the Character of Lulu Notes Credits Index

A brilliant and thought-provoking collection of eleven essays on various aspects of understanding music, written…by one of our most distinguished musicologists…[a] profound and deeply personal view of music and history.