Philosophy of Modern Music.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Translators' Introduction -- Preface -- Introduction -- Choice of subject matter -- New conformism -- False musical consciousness -- 'Intellectualism' -- Modern music unprotected -- The antinomy of modern music -- Growing indifferentism -- On method -- Schoenberg and Progress -- Disturbance of the work -- Inherent tendency of musical material -- Schoenberg's criticism of illusion and play -- Dialectics of loneliness -- Loneliness as style -- Expressionism as objectivity -- Total organization of the elements of music -- Total development -- The concept of twelve-tone technique -- Musical domination of nature -- Loss of freedom -- Twelve-tone melos and rhythm -- Differentiation and coarsening -- Harmony -- Instrumental timbre -- Twelve-tone counterpoint -- Function of counterpoint -- Form -- The composers -- Avant-garde and theory -- The renunciation of material -- Cognitive character -- Attitude towards society -- Stravinsky and Restoration -- Authenticity -- Sacrifice and the absence of intention -- The hand organ as a primeval phenomenon -- Sacre and African sculpture -- Technical elements in Sacre -- 'Rhythm' -- Identification with the collective -- Archaism, modernism, infantilism -- Permanent regression and musical form -- The psychotic aspect -- Ritual -- Alienation as objectivity -- Fetishism of the means -- Depersonalization -- Hebephrenia -- Catatonia -- Music about music -- Denaturation and simplification -- Dissociation of time -- Music - a pseudomorphism of painting -- Theory of ballet music -- Modes of listening -- The deception of objectivism -- The final trick -- Neoclassicism -- Experiments in expansion -- Schoenberg and Stravinsky -- Note to the third edition -- Notes -- Translators' Introduction -- Preface -- Introduction -- Schoenberg and Progress -- Stravinsky and Restoration.

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