The Sight of Sound: Music Representation and the History of the Body

Preface and Acknowledgments Translator's Note Abbreviations Introduction (by Richard Leppert) 1. Locating Music: Society, Modernity, and the New Commentary (by Richard Leppert) Music, Language, and Composition (1956) Why Is the New Art So Hard to Understand?* (1931) On the Contemporary Relationship of Philosophy and Music* (1953) On the Problem of Musical Analysis (1969) The Aging of the New Music (1955) The Dialectical Composer* (1934) 2. Culture, Technology, and Listening Commentary (by Richard Leppert) The Radio Symphony (1941) The Curves of the Needle (1927/1965) The Form of the Phonograph Record (1934) Opera and the Long-Playing Record (1969) On the Fetish-Character in Music and the Regression of Listening (1938) Little Heresy* (1965) 3. Music and Mass Culture Commentary (by Richard Leppert) What National Socialism Has Done to the Arts (1945) On the Social Situation in Music (1932) On Popular Music [With the assistance of George Simpson] (1941) On Jazz (1936) Farewell to Jazz* (1933) Kitsch* (c. 1932) Music in the Background* (c. 1934) 4. Composition, Composers, and Works Commentary (by Richard Leppert) Late Style in Beethoven (1937) Alienated Masterpiece: The Missa Solemnis (1959) Wagner's Relevance for Today (1963) Mahler Today* (1930) Marginala on Mahler* (1936) The Opera Wozzeck* (1929) Toward an Understanding of Schoenberg* (1955/1967) Difficulties* (1964, 1966) Bibliography Index An asterisk (*) following a title indicates that the essay is here translated into English for the first time.