Dramatic and tonal logic in Mozart's operas
Mozart's entry into the twentieth century
Drama and figured bass in Mozart's concertos
Structural dissonance and the classical sonata
Tradition without convention
Felix Mendelssohn at 200 : prodigy without peer
Happy birthday, Elliott Carter!
Frédéric Chopin, reactionary and revolutionary
Robert Schumann, a vision of the future
The New Grove's dictionary returns
Western music : the view from California
Theodore Adorno : criticism as cultural nostalgia
Resuscitating opera : Alessandro Scarlatti
Operatic paradoxes : the ridiculous and sublime
Lost chords and the golden age of pianism
Montaigne : philosophy as process
La Fontaine : the ethical power of style
The anatomy lesson : melancholy and the invention of boredom
Mallarmé and the transfiguration of poetry
Hoffmansthal and radical modernism
The private obsessions of Wystan Auden
Old wisdom and newfangled theory : two one-way streets to disaster.
