Table of Contents

1. Some ideas on the sociology of music 2. Bourgeois opera 3. New music, interpretation, audience 4. The mastery of the maestro 5. The prehistory of serial music 6. Alban Berg 7. The orchestration of Berg's early songs 8. The orchestration of Berg's early songs 9. Anton von Webern 10. Classicism, Romanticism, New Music 10. The function of counterpoint in New Music 11. Criteria of New Music 12. Music and technique.

About the Author

Theodor W. Adorno was one of the founders of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. He is the coauthor (with Max Horkheimer) of Dialectic of Enlightenment, and the author of Negative Dialectics, Aesthetic Theory, and Beethoven: The Philosophy of Music (Stanford, 1998).

Reviews

"The publication of the collection of musical essays in Sound Figures is particularly important for the establishment of a more sensitive reception of the rich thought of Adorno. Here we have a very good translation of Adorno's texts..." - Philosophy in Review