Acknowledgments

Part I: The Cultural Moment

Prelude

Part II: The Drama

1. A Convergence of Minds

2. A Happy Collaboration

3. Deeper Meanings

Part III: The Music

4. Stravinsky's "Special Sense"

5. Displacement, Text Setting and Stravinsky's Evolving Aesthetic

6. Stravinsky's Truths and Mozart's Lies—Music, Emotion and Theatrical Distance

7. The Structure of Scenes

8. Ruin, Disaster, ... Saving Grace

Part IV: Performance

9. Venice

10. How The Rake became a Masterpiece

Epilogue: "Good people, just a moment"

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Chandler Carter is Professor of Music at Hofstra University.

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