Music at the limits : three decades of essays and articles on music / Edward W. Said

London : Bloomsbury, 2008. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 325 pp. Contents; 1. The Music Itself: Glenn Gould's Contrapuntal Vision -- 2. Remembrances of Things Played: Presence and Memory in the Pianist's Art -- 3. Pomp and Circumstance (on Musical Festivals) -- 4. On Richard Strauss -- 5. Die Walk�re, Aida, X -- 6. Music and Feminism -- 7. Maestro for the Masses (review of Understanding Toscanini) -- 8. Middle Age and Performers -- 9. The Vienna Philharmonic: The Complete Beethoven Symphonies and Concertos -- 10. The Barber of Seville, Don Giovanni -- 11. Glenn Gould at the Metropolitan Museum -- 12. Giulio Cesare -- 13. Bluebeard's Castle, Erwartung -- 14. Extreme Occasions (on Celibidache) -- 15. Peter Sellars's Mozart -- 16. Andr�s Schiff at Carnegie Hall -- Part II: The Nineties -- 17. Richard Strauss -- 18. Wagner and the Met's Ring -- 19. Opera Productions (Der Rosenkavalier, House of the Dead, Doctor Faust) -- 20. Style and Stylessness (Elektra, Semiramide, Katya Kabanova) -- 21. Alfred Brendel: Words for Music (review of Alfred Brendel's Music Sounded Out: Essays, Lectures, Interviews, Afterthoughts) -- 22. Die Tote Stadt, Fidelio, The Death of Klinghoffer -- 23. Uncertainties of Style (The Ghosts of Versailles, Die Soldaten) -- 24. Musical Retrospection -- 25. The Bard Festival -- 26. The Importance of Being Unfaithful to Wagner -- 27. Music as Gesture (on Solti) -- 28. Les Troyens -- 29. Child's Play (review of Maynard Solomon's Mozart: A Life) -- 30. 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould -- 31. Bach's Genius, Schumann's Eccentricity, Chopin's Ruthlessness, Rosen's Gift (review of Charles Rosen's The Romantic Generation) -- 32. Why Listen to Boulez? -- 33. Hindemith and Mozart -- 34. Review of Michael Tanner's Wagner -- 35. In the Chair (review of Peter Ostwald's Glenn Gould and the Tragedy of Genius) -- 36. On Fidelio. 37. Music and Spectacle (La Cenerentola and The Rake's Progress) -- 38. Review of Gottfried Wagner's He Who Does Not Howl with the Wolf: The Wagner Legacy-An Autobiography -- 39. Bach for the Masses -- Part III: 2000 and Beyond -- 40. Daniel Barenboim (Bonding Across Cultural Boundaries) -- 41. Glenn Gould, the Virtuoso as Intellectual -- 42. Cosmic Ambition (review of Christoph Wolff's Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician) -- 43. Barenboim and the Wagner Taboo -- 44. Untimely Meditations (review of Maynard Solomon's Late Beethoven) -- Appendix: Bach/Beethoven. Subjects; Geschichte 1980-2003. Music History & Criticism. Collected essays. Music Addresses, essays, lectures.