CONTENTS

EDITOR’S PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Fragments and Texts

ONE PRELUDE

TWO MUSIC AND CONCEPT

Towards a Theory of Beethoven

THREE SOCIETY

Text 1: The Mediation Between Music and Society

FOUR TONALITY

FIVE FORM AND THE RECONSTRUCTION OF FORM

SIX CRITIQUE

SEVEN THE EARLY AND ‘CLASSICAL’ PHASES

On the Piano Trio op. 97: Elements of a Theory of the Extensive Type

Towards a Theory of Beethoven

EIGHT VERS UNE ANALYSE DES SYMPHONIES

Text 2a: Beethoven’s Symphonies

Text 2b: Radio and the Destruction of Symphonic Form

NINE THE LATE STYLE (I)

Text 3: Beethoven’s Late Style

Text 4: Ludwig Van Beethoven: Six Bagatelles for Piano, op. 126

TEN LATE WORK WITHOUT LATE STYLE

Text 5: The Alienated Magnum Opus: On the Missa Solemnis

ELEVEN THE LATE STYLE (II)

TWELVE HUMANITY AND DEMYTHOLOGIZATION

Text 6: The Truth Content of Beethoven’s Music

APPENDIX I

Text 7: Rudolph Kolisch’s Theory of Tempo and Characters in Beethoven

APPENDIX II

Text 8: ‘Beautiful Passages’ in Beethoven

APPENDIX III

Text 9: Beethoven’s Late Style

ABBREVIATIONS

EDITOR’S NOTE

EDITORIAL AFTERWORD

COMPARATIVE TABLE OF FRAGMENTS

THEMATIC SUMMARY OF CONTENTS

INDEXES