Adorno's Aesthetics of Music

This introduction to the aesthetics and sociology of music of the German philosopher and music theorist T. W. Adorno is the only book to deal comprehensively with this topic and it has quickly established itself as a classic text.

Acknowledgements

xi

Introduction

1

(20)

1 Adorno in context

3

(10)

2 Reading Adorno

13

(3)

3 Considerations on method

16

(5)

1 Constellations: towards a critical method

21

(44)

1 The writings on music: a thematic outline

22

(7)

2 History, nature, second nature: the debates with Lukacs and Benjamin

29

(8)

3 The problem of form: Bartok, Hindemith, Stravinsky and the Second Viennese School

37

(15)

4 Towards a critical method: levels of interpretation

52

(13)

2 The development of a theory of musical material

65

(43)

1 Theories of artistic material: precursors and contemporaries

66

(15)

2 The Adorno-Krenek debate

81

(16)

3 On the social situation of music

97

(11)

3 The problem of mediation

108

(41)

1 Hegel: mediation and the dialectic

109

(12)

2 Adorno's Marxian model: the social mediation of music

121

(7)

3 Freud: art and sublimation

128

(7)

4 Max Weber adapted; rationality and mimesis

135

(14)

4 A material theory of form

149

(35)

1 The immanent dialectic of musical material

149

(9)

2 Immanent analysis: Berg, Sonata op. 1

158

(10)

3 Adorno's interpretation of Berg: critique and commentary

168

(6)

4 Proposals for a material theory of musical form

174

(10)

5 Social content and social function

184

(34)

1 The social dialectic of musical material

185

(2)

2 Musical production

187

(5)

3 Musical reproduction (I): performance

192

(6)

4 Musical reproduction (II): distribution

198

(9)

5 Musical consumption

207

(11)

6 The historical dialectic of musical material

218

(45)

1 Adorno's philosophy of music history

219

(6)

2 Bach and the style galant

225

(8)

3 Beethoven and Berlioz

233

(9)

4 Wagner and Brahms

242

(14)

5 Debussy and Mahler

256

(7)

7 The disintegration of musical material

263

(16)

1 Issues in the philosophy of New Music

265

(6)

2 The decline of the modern

271

(5)

3 Concluding remarks

276

(3)

Appendix

279

(6)

Notes

285

(45)

Bibliography

330

(35)

Index of names

365

(3)

Subject index

368

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