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Preface page 11
PART I: PRE-WAR PIONEERS
(a) The Revolutionary Situation 19
(b) Impressionism and Disruption 24
(c) Debussy as Key-figure 38
(d) Music and the Naughty 'Nineties 49
PART II: POST-WAR PASTICHEURS
(a) The Age of Pastiche 63
(b) Diaghileff and Stravinsky as Time Travellers 69
(c) Surrealism and Neo-Classicism 78
(d) 'Toute réaction est vraie' 87
(e) Synthetic Melody 97
(f) Abstraction in Music 112
(g) Eric Satie and his Musique d'ameublement 123
PART III: NATIONALISM AND THE EXOTIC
(a) Nationalism and Democracy 141
(b) The Russian Nationalists 154
(c) The Conflict between Nationalism and Form 161
(d) Nationalism and the Modern Scene 170
(e) The Cult of the Exotic 184
(f) Exoticism and 'Low Life' 192
(g) The Spirit of Jazz 201
(h) Symphonic Jazz 215
PART IV: THE MECHANICAL STIMULUS
(a) The Apalling Popularity of Music 233
(b) Mechanical Romanticism 239
(c) Craft for Craft's Sake 246
(d) Mechanical Music and the Cinema 256
(e) The Disappearing Middlebrow 268
PART V: ESCAPE OR SUBMISSION
(a) A Psychological Cul-de-sac 277
(b) Schönberg and Official revolution 287
(c) Sibelius and the Integration of Form 304
(d) The Symphonic Problem 312
(e) Sibelius and the Music of the Future 326
Index 333

All:The music, ho! Enter Mardian the Eunuch Cleopatra: Let it alone; let's to billiards.

—WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

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Music Ho! A Study of Music in Decline

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