Charles Rosen recently received one of the 2011 National Humanities Medals from President Obama. The essay in this issue will appear in his new book, Freedom and the Arts: Essays on Music and Literature, to be published by Harvard University Press in May. (May 2012)
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Mozart’s Early Trumpets
June 7, 2012
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Freedom and Art
May 10, 2012
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Extreme Romanticism at the Met
March 22, 2012
Ernani an opera by Giuseppe Verdi
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The Super Power of Franz Liszt
February 23, 2012
Liszt as Transcriber
by Jonathan Kregor
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Elliott Carter’s Music of Time
February 9, 2012
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The Brilliant Music of Ravel
November 10, 2011
Ravel
by Roger Nichols
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The Pleasures of Rimbaud
August 18, 2011
Illuminations
by Arthur Rimbaud, translated from the French and with a preface by John Ashbery
Poems Under Saturn
by Paul Verlaine, translated from the French and with an introduction by Karl Kirchwey
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The Revelations of Frank Kermode
June 9, 2011
The Uses of Error
by Frank Kermode
Bury Place Papers: Essays from the London Review of Books
by Frank Kermode
The Genesis of Secrecy: On the Interpretation of Narrative
by Frank Kermode
Shakespeare’s Language
by Frank Kermode
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Music and the Cold War
April 7, 2011
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Happy Birthday, Robert Schumann!
December 23, 2010
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Happy Birthday, Frédéric Chopin!
June 24, 2010
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Radical, Modern Hofmannsthal
April 8, 2010
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On Isaiah Berlin: Gossip
February 25, 2010
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Happy Birthday, Elliott Carter!
March 12, 2009
Elliott Carter: A Centennial Portrait in Letters and Documents
by Felix Meyer and Anne C. Shreffler
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T.S. Eliot Repents
February 26, 2009
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What Happened to Wystan Auden?
November 20, 2008
The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume III: 1949–1955
edited by Edward Mendelson
Randall Jarrell on W.H. Auden
edited by Stephen Burt with Hannah Brooks-Motl
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The Genius of Montaigne
February 14, 2008
Les Essais by Michel de Montaigne, edited by Jean Balsamo, Michel Magnien, andCatherine Magnin Simon
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What Mozart Meant: An Exchange
December 6, 2007
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The Best Book on Mozart
October 25, 2007
W.A. Mozart
by Hermann Abert, edited by Cliff Eisen, and translated from the German by Stewart Spencer
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Opera: Follow the Music
October 5, 2006
Divas and Scholars: Performing Italian Opera
by Philip Gossett
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Mozart at 250
May 25, 2006
Mozart
by Julian Rushton
Mozart and His Operas
by David Cairns
The Faber Pocket Guide to Mozart
by Nicholas Kenyon
The Cambridge Mozart Encyclopedia
edited by Cliff Eisen and Simon P. Keefe
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Paul Henry Lang
March 23, 2006
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From the Troubadours to Sinatra: Part II
March 9, 2006
The Oxford History of Western Music
by Richard Taruskin
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From the Troubadours to Frank Sinatra
February 23, 2006
The Oxford History of Western Music
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Playing Music: The Lost Freedom
November 3, 2005
Performing Music in the Age of Recording
by Robert Philip
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The Anatomy Lesson
June 9, 2005
The Anatomy of Melancholy
by Robert Burton, with an introduction by William Gass
The Anatomy of Melancholy
by Robert Burton. Text in three volumes edited by Thomas C. Faulkner, Nicolas K. Kiessling, and Rhonda L. Blair, with an introduction by J.B. Bamborough; commentary in three volumes edited by J.B. Bamborough and Martin Dodsworth
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‘Red-Hot Moma’
March 10, 2005
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Red-Hot MoMA
January 13, 2005
The Museum of Modern Art, New York Yoshio Taniguchi, architect
Modern Painting and Sculpture: 1880 to the Present at the Museum of Modern Art
edited by John Elderfield
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Culture & the Market
January 15, 2004
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Culture on the Market
November 6, 2003
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Adoring Adorno
February 13, 2003
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Multicultural Correctness
January 16, 2003
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Should We Adore Adorno?
October 24, 2002
Philosophy of Modern Music
by Theodor W. Adorno, translated from the German by Anne G. Mitchell and Wesley V. Blomster
Essays on Music
by Theodor W. Adorno, selected and with an introduction, commentary, and notes by Richard Leppert, and new translations from the German by Susan H. Gillespie
Beethoven: The Philosophy of Music
by Theodor W. Adorno, edited by Rolf Tiedemann, translated from the German by Edmond Jephcott
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Steak and Potatoes
March 14, 2002
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The Future of Music
December 20, 2001
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Within a Budding Grove
June 21, 2001
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Second Edition edited by Stanley Sadie
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Genius in Private
December 21, 2000
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Scenes from the American Dream
August 10, 2000
Norman Rockwell: Pictures for the American People 17- September 24, 2000.
by June an exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Catalog of the exhibition edited by Maureen Hart Hennessey, by Anne Knutson
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Playing the Piano
February 24, 2000
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The Drama Inside the Concerto
January 20, 2000
Concerto Conversations
by Joseph Kerman
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‘Playing the Piano’
December 16, 1999
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On Playing the Piano
October 21, 1999
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Rhymes with ‘IX’
June 24, 1999
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Mallarmé the Magnificent
May 20, 1999
Oeuvres complètes, Vol. 1 by Stéphane Mallarmé, edited by Bertrand Marchal
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‘Aimez-Vous Brahms?’: An Exchange
March 18, 1999
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Aimez-Vous Brahms?
October 22, 1998
Johannes Brahms: A Biography
by Jan Swafford
Johannes Brahms: Life and Letters
selected and annotated by Styra Avins
Brahms Studies 2
edited by David Brodbeck
Brahms: The Four Symphonies
by Walter Frisch
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‘Who’s Afraid of the Avant-Garde?’: An Exchange
June 25, 1998
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Who’s Afraid of the Avant-Garde?
May 14, 1998
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The Other Perrault
February 19, 1998
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The Fabulous La Fontaine
December 18, 1997
Le Poète et le Roi: Jean de La Fontaine en son siècle by Marc Fumaroli
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The Great Inventor
October 9, 1997
Bach and the Patterns of Invention
by Laurence Dreyfus
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The Missing Bassoon
April 24, 1997
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Beethoven’s Genius: An Exchange
April 10, 1997
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Did Beethoven Have All the Luck?
November 14, 1996
Beethoven and the Construction of Genius: Musical Politics in Vienna, 1792-1803 by Tia DeNora
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The Scandal of the Classics
May 9, 1996
Oeuvres Complètes, Volume 5: Ecrits sur la musique, la langue et le théâtre by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Anatomy of Melancholy, Volumes I–III by Robert Burton
Oeuvres, Volume 2 by Marquis de Sade
Sämtliche Werke, Band 7/I and 7/II by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Werke, Band 3: Politische Schriften by Bettina von Arnim
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Getting Back to Life
February 1, 1996
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Beethoven’s Triumph’
November 16, 1995
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Beethoven’s Triumph
September 21, 1995
Listening in Paris: A Cultural History by James H. Johnson
Beethoven by William Kinderman
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Only One Song
December 1, 1994
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Schubert à la Mode
October 20, 1994
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‘Music à La Mode’
September 22, 1994
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Music à la Mode
June 23, 1994
Beethoven: Studies in the Creative Process
by Lewis Lockwood
Haydn and the Classical Variation
by Elaine R. Sisman
Haydn’s ‘Farewell’ Symphony and the Idea of the Classical Style
by James Webster
Feminine Endings: Music, Gender and Sexuality
by Susan McClary
Music and Society: The Politics of Composition, Performance, and Reception
edited by Richard Leppert and Susan McClary
Musicology and Difference: Gender and Sexuality in Music Scholarship
edited by Ruth A. Solie
Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology
edited by Philip Brett, Elizabeth Wood, and Gary C. Thomas
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The Miraculous Mandarin
October 21, 1993
William Empson: Essays on Renaissance Literature: Volume One, Donne and the New Philosophy edited by John Haffenden
William Empson: Argufying, Essays on Literature and Culture edited by John Haffenden
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Wagner’s Anti-Semitism
June 10, 1993
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The Ridiculous & Sublime
April 22, 1993
The New Grove Dictionary of Opera edited by Stanley Sadie
The Queen’s Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire
by Wayne Koestenbaum
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The Mad Poets
October 22, 1992
The Letters and Prose Writings of William Cowper, Vol. 1, ‘Adelphi’ and Letters 17501781, edited by James King, edited by Charles Ryskamp
The Letters and Prose Writings of William Cowper, Vol. 2, Letters 17821786 edited by James King, edited by Charles Ryskamp
The Letters and Prose Writings of William Cowper, Vol. 3, Letters 17871791 edited by James King, edited by Charles Ryskamp
The Letters and Prose Writings of William Cowper, Vol. 4, Letters 17921799 edited by James King, edited by Charles Ryskamp
The Letters and Prose Writings of William Cowper, Vol. 5, Prose 1756c. 1799 and Cumulative Index edited by James King, edited by Charles Ryskamp
William Cowper: Selected Letters edited by James King, edited by Charles Ryskamp
The Poetical Works of Christopher Smart, Vol. 1, Jubilate Agno
edited by Karina Williamson
The Poetical Works of Christopher Smart, Vol. 2, Religious Poetry edited by Marcus Walsh, edited by Karina Williamson
The Poetical Works of Christopher Smart, Vol. 3, A Translation of the Psalms of David edited by Marcus Walsh
The Poetical Works of Christopher Smart, Vol. 4, Miscellaneous Poems, English and Latin
edited by Karina Williamson
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‘Radical, Conventional Mozart’: An Exchange
April 9, 1992
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Friendly Corrections
January 30, 1992
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Radical, Conventional Mozart
December 19, 1991
Mozart Speaks: Views on Music, Musicians, and the World selected and with a commentary by Robert L. Marshall
Autonomy and Mercy: Reflections on Mozart’s Operas by Ivan Nagel, translated by Marion Faber, by Ivan Nagel
Mozart’s Operas
by Daniel Heartz
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‘The Shock of the Old’
February 14, 1991
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Early Music: An Exchange
November 8, 1990
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The Shock of the Old
October 11, 1990
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The Shock of the Old
July 19, 1990
Authenticity and Early Music: A Symposium edited by Nicholas Kenyon
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Vulcan’s Net
January 19, 1989
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Happy Birthday, Elliott Carter
December 8, 1988
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Inventor of Modern Opera
October 27, 1988
Oeuvres by Caron de Beaumarchais
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‘Romantic Originals’: An Exchange
April 14, 1988
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‘Obnoxious’
March 17, 1988
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Romantic Originals
December 17, 1987
La Comédie humaine by Honoré de Balzac, published under the direction of Pierre-Georges Castex
Lord Byron: The Complete Poetical Works edited by Jerome J. McGann
The Cornell Wordsworth edited by Stephen M. Parrish
William Wordsworth and the Age of English Romanticism An exhibition at the New York Public Library through January 2, 1988
William Wordsworth and the Age of English Romanticism Catalog of the exhibition by Jonathan Wordsworth, by Michael C. Jaye, by Robert Woof
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The Chopin Touch
May 28, 1987
Fryderyk Chopin: Pianist from Warsaw by William G. Atwood
Chopin: Pianist and Teacher as Seen by his Pupils
by Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger, translated by Naomi Shohet, translated by Krysia Osostowicz, by Roy Howat, edited by Roy Howat
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The Judgment of Paris
February 26, 1987
Le Musée d’Orsay 1, rue de Bellechasse, Paris
Le Triomphe des mairies 8, 1987) An exhibition at the Petit Palais, Paris, (November 8, 1986January, Catalog by Thérèse Burollet, by Daniel Imbert, by Frank Folliot
Les Concours d’esquisses peintes, 18161863 1986December 14, 1986), and the National Academy of Design, New York (January 13, 1987March 15, 1987). An exhibition at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris (October 8,, Catalog by Philippe Grunchec
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Now, Voyager
November 6, 1986
Voyage into Substance: Art, Science, Nature, and the Illustrated Travel Account, 17601840 by Barbara Maria Stafford
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Battle over Berlioz
April 26, 1984
The Musical Language of Berlioz by Julian Rushton
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The New Sound of Liszt
April 12, 1984
Franz Liszt: Volume 1, The Virtuoso Years, 1811-1847 by Alan Walker
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Verdi Victorious
October 27, 1983
The Works of Giuseppe Verdi edited by Philip Gossett
Rigoletto: Melodrama in Three Acts by Francesco Maria Piave, edited by Martin Chusid
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Neo-Con Art
September 23, 1982
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The Unhappy Medium
May 27, 1982
Thomas Couture and the Eclectic Vision by Albert Boime
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Enemies of Realism
March 4, 1982
“The Realist Tradition: French Painting and Drawing 1830-1900” the St. Louis Art Museum, the Glasgow (Scotland) Art Gallery and Museum. November 1980-January 1982 an exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum,
The Realist Tradition: French Painting and Drawing 1830-1900
by Gabriel P. Weisberg
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What Is, and Is Not, Realism?
February 18, 1982
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‘The New Grove’ cont’d.
December 3, 1981
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Proto-Photo
December 3, 1981
Before Photography: Painting and the Invention of Photography by Peter Galassi
“Before Photography: Painting and the Invention of Photography” Museum, Omaha; the Frederick S. Wright Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles; the Art Institute of Chicago. May 1981-May 1982 an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Joslyn Art
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An Exchange on the New Grove
August 13, 1981
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It Can Happen
July 16, 1981
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The Musicological Marvel
May 28, 1981
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians edited by Stanley Sadie
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The Permanent Revolution
November 22, 1979
Romanticism by Hugh Honour
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Rediscovering Haydn
June 14, 1979
Haydn: Chronicle and Works, Vol. 2: Haydn at Eszterháza, 1766-1790 by H. C. Robbins Landon
Haydn: Chronicle and Works, Vol. 3: Haydn in England, 1791-1795 by H. C. Robbins Landon
Haydn: Chronicle and Works, Vol. 4: Haydn: The Years of “The Creation,” 1796-1800 by H. C. Robbins Landon
Haydn: Chronicle and Works, Vol. 5: Haydn: The Late Years, 1801-1809 by H. C. Robbins Landon
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Too Much Opera?
May 31, 1979
The Operas of Alessandro Scarlatti, Vol. I: Eraclea edited by Donald Jay Grout
The Operas of Alessandro Scarlatti, Vol. II: Marco Attilio Regolo edited by Donald Jay Grout, edited by Joscelyn Godwin
The Operas of Alessandro Scarlatti, Vol. III: Griselda edited by Donald Jay Grout
The Operas of Alessandro Scarlatti, Vol. IV: The Faithful Princess edited by Donald Jay Grout
The Operas of Alessandro Scarlatti, Vol. V: Massimo Puppieno edited by Donald Jay Grout, edited by H. Colin Slim
Italian Opera 1640-1770 edited by Howard M. Brown
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The Origins of Walter Benjamin
November 10, 1977
The Origin of German Tragic Drama by Walter Benjamin, translated by John Osborne
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The Ruins of Walter Benjamin
October 27, 1977
The Origin of German Tragic Drama by Walter Benjamin, translated by John Osborne
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The Revival of Official Art
March 18, 1976
Le Musée du Luxembourg en 1874: Peintures November 18, 1974, by Geneviève Lacambre, with Jacqueline de Rohan-Chabot Catalogue of the exhibition at the Grand-Palais, Paris May 31 to
The Absolute Bourgeois: Artists and Politics in France, 1848-1851
by T.J. Clark
Image of the People: Gustave Courbet and the Second French Republic, 1848-1851 by T.J. Clark
Academy and French Painting in the Nineteenth Century by Albert Boime
William-Adolphe Bouguereau December 13, 1974 to February 2, 1975, by Robert Isaacson Catalogue of the exhibition at The New York Cultural Center,
French Painting 1774-1830: The Age of Revolution Delacroix” at the Grand-Palais, Paris, The Detroit Institute of Arts, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1975 Catalogue of the exhibition "French Painting from David to
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Did Wordsworth Kill Lucy?
June 26, 1975
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Romantic Documents
May 15, 1975
Flaubert: Correspondence Tome I, 1830-1851 edited by Jean Bruneau
Byron’s Letters and Journals, Vol. 1: ‘In my hot youth,’ 1798-1810, Vol. 2: ‘Famous in my time,’ 1810-1812, Vol. 3: ‘Alas! the love of Women!’ 1813-1814 edited by Leslie A. Marchand
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Grateful to Strunk
April 17, 1975
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A Master Musicologist
February 6, 1975
Essays on Music in the Western World by Oliver Strunk
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Private Property
December 12, 1974
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Medium & Message
February 21, 1974
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What Did the Romantics Mean?
November 1, 1973
Caspar David Friedrich, 1774-1840: Romantic Landscape Painting in Dresden by William Vaughan, by Helmut Börsch-Supan, by Hans Joachim Neidhardt
Robert Schumann: The Man and His Music edited by Alan Walker
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Isn’t It Romantic?
June 14, 1973
Natural Supernaturalism: Tradition and Revolution in Romantic Literature
by M.H. Abrams
Coleridge’s Verse: A Selection edited by William Empson, edited by David Pirie
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One Easy Piece
February 22, 1973
Quartet No. 1 by Elliott Carter
Eight Etudes and a Fantasy by Elliott Carter
Sonata for flute, oboe, cello and harpsichord by Elliott Carter
Variations for Orchestra by Elliott Carter
Quartet No. 2 by Elliott Carter
Double concerto for harpsichord, piano and two chamber orchestras Orchestra by Elliott Carter
Piano Concerto by Elliott Carter
Concerto for Orchestra by Elliott Carter
Quartet No. 3 by Elliott Carter
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Love That Mozart
May 18, 1972
The Life and Death of Mozart by Michael Levey
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Music to Compose By
February 10, 1972
Boulez on Music Today by Pierre Boulez, translated by Susan Bradshaw, translated by Richard Rodney Bennett
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There Are Twelve
July 22, 1971
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Art Has Its Reasons
June 17, 1971
Five Graphic Music Analyses
by Heinrich Schenker, with a new Introduction and Glossary by Felix Salzer
La Poétique, la Mémoire Change No. 6, 1970, Editions du Seuil (Paris)
Shakespeare’s Verbal Art in Th’Expence of Spirit
by Roman Jakobson, by Lawrence G. Jones
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TV Guide
May 7, 1970
Civilization by Kenneth Clark
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A Tone-deaf Musical Dictionary
February 26, 1970
Harvard Dictionary of Music Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged by Willi Apel
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Elliott Carter's Music of Time
December 28, 2011
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Isaiah Berlin's Civilized Malice
January 12, 2010
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The Lost Pleasure of Browsing
October 13, 2009