The Battle of Chronos and Orpheus

Originally published in France in 1993, this coordinated series of essays by the renowned Canadian musicologist and leading authority on musical semiology includes the author's reflections on such seemingly diverse topics as Lévi-Strauss, the work of the ethnomusicologist Brailoiu, the writings of Glenn Gould, the aesthetics of Hanslick, authenticity, Boulez as composer, conductor and thinker, Proust, and Wagner's Ring. The range of scholarly reference is
breathtaking.