Beautiful monsters : imagining the classic in musical media /
Michael Long.
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008.
- x, 311 p. : ill ; 24 cm.
- California studies in 20th-century music ; 10 .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-298) and index.
Registering the classic. The expressive vernacular ; Making overtures ; Yiddishkeit and the musical ethics of cinema -- Envisioning the classic. Hearing monsters ; The fantastic, the picturesque, and the dimensions of nostalgia ; Listening in dark places ; Concertos, symphonies, rhapsodies (and an opera) -- Conclusion: sitting down with mnemosyne.