Part 1 : Ideological criticism -- The role of ideology in the study of western music -- Adorno's diagnosis of Beethoven's late style : early symptom of fatal condition -- Why is Adorno's music criticism the way it is? some reflections on twentieth-century criticism of nineteenth-century music -- Kant, Adorno, and the self-critique of reason : toward a model for music criticism -- Part 2 : Stylistic criticism -- Musicology and criticism -- Evidence of a critical worldview in Mozart's last three symphonies -- Romantic music as post-Kantian critique : classicism, romanticism, and the concept of the semiotic universe -- On grounding Chopin -- Part 3 : Perspectives of western musical history -- The cultural message of musical semiology : some thoughts on music, language, and criticism since the Enlightenment -- Tonality, autonomy, and competence in postclassical music -- The historical structure : Adorno's "French" model for the criticism of nineteenth-century music -- Individualism in western art music and its cultural costs -- The challenge of contemporary music.
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