| The contents of Robin Holloway's book, On
Music: Essays and Diversions, are as follows.
The underlined entries
are links to extracts from the book itself.
Preface
Part 1: The Austro-German Mainstream
- 1 Two on Bach performances
- 2 Haydn: the musicians’ musician
- 3 Mozart: redundant genius
- 4 Schubert’s songs recorded
- 5 A noble nature
- 6 Some thoughts about Tristan and abstract nouns
- 7 Motif, memory and meaning in Twilight of the Gods
- 8 Experiencing music and imagery in Parsifal
- 9 Humanising Wagner
- 10 Two on Bruckner
- 11 Two on Brahms
- 12 Gingerbread artistry
- 13 Unobtrusive conservative
- 14 Mahler’s tragic friend
- 15 A Dutch Mahlerian
- 16 Mahler 10
- 17 Strauss: two pieces on the fiftieth anniversary of his
death
- 18 Salome: art or kitsch?
- 19 The orchestration of Elektra: a critical interpretation
- 20 Die Frau ohne Schatten
- 21 Strauss’s last opera
- 22 Strauss Stravinsky Schoenberg
- 23 The great mutilator
- 24 Lulu
- 25 Schoeck the evolutionary
- 26 Two on Weill
- 27 Henze’s law
- 28 Stockhausen’s Inori
Part II The Others
- 29 Purcell’s diligent muse
- 30 Elaborating Elgar’s Third
- 31 Fairest Isle
- 32 Walton’s centenary
- 33 Benjamin Britten: the sentimental sublime
- 34 Memorial piece
- 35 Strange victory
- 36 The church parables: limits and renewals
- 37 Britten’s tenor-man
- 38 Britten twenty-five years on
- 39 Fertile masterpiece
- 40 Splendid but silly
- 41 Remembering two composers
- 42 Alexander Goehr: towards a critique
- 43 Knussen at fifty
- 44 Two on Chabrier
- 45 Two on Fauré
- 46 Three on Debussy
- 47 Two on Ravel
- 48 Satie’s Socrate
- 49 Two on Poulenc
- 50 Sugar and spice
- 51 Scriabin’s Poem of Ecstasy
- 52 Beware the pitfalls of sincerity
- 53 Puzzled by Shostakovich
- 54 Appalled by Schnittke
- 55 Russian jamboree
- 56 Stravinsky’s self-concealment
- 57 Stravinsky’s spiritual son
- 58 Customised goods
- 59 Complex Oedipus
- 60 Expressive sources and resources in
Janácek’s musical language
- 61 ‘Use your ears like a man’
- 62 ‘But is it art?’ Gershwin in a classical
context
- 63 Aaron Copland
- 64 Ralph Shapey’s Trilogy in Chicago
- 65 Two on David Del Tredici
Part III ‘Think pieces’
- 66 The search for a sound aesthetics
- 67 Models of invention: old music with a new ear
- 68 Business as usual
- 69 Keller’s causes
- 70 Tovey
- 71 ‘hab’ Dank!’
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