Preface

Part I. Introduction

1. Hydra-headed Historicism

2. Redefining Historicism

3. Historicism, Postmodernism, and Modernism

4. The Rise of Historicism

Part II. Antihistoricism

5. The Historical Basis of Antihistoricist Criticism

6. A Refutation of Antihistoricist Arguments

The Irrelevancy Argument

The Innovation Argument

The "Find-Your-Own-Voice" Argument

The Oppressive Rules Argument

The Pastiche Argument

• Pastiche, Collage, and Montage
• Rebuttal No. 1: A French Perspective
• Rebuttal No. 2: An American Perspective

The Political Argument

• Hitler, Wagner, and the Music of the Future
• Richard Strauss, Nazism, and Future Shock
• The Schönbergian Paradox

The Exploitation Argument

The Playing-to-the-Consumer Argument

Part III. The Continuity of Historicism in Architecture, the Visual Arts, and Literature

7. Types of Historicism

8. Adaptive Historicism in Architecture

Horace Walpole - Strawberry Hill

Thomas Jefferson - University of Virginia

Cass Gilbert - Woolworth Building

9. Adaptive Historicism in the Visual Arts

Jacques-Louis David - The Oath of the Horatii

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres - Raphael and the Fornarina

Wassily Kandinsky - Jocular Sounds

10. Adaptive Historicism in Literature

Horace Walpole - The Castle of Otranto

Sir Walter Scott - Ivanhoe

T. S. Eliot - The Waste Land

11. Derivative Historicism in Architecture

Thomas Jefferson - Monticello

William C. Smith and Alan LeQuire - Parthenon

Konstantin A. Thon - Cathedral of Christ the Savior

12. Derivative Historicism in the Visual Arts

Canaletto - The Piazza of San Marco Seen from the Northwest Corner

Samuel Bourne - Vishnu Pud and Other Temples near the Burning Gat, Benares

USPS - The Pacific 97 Triangles

13. Derivative Historicism in Literature

Alexander Pope - The Iliad

Edward Fitzgerald - The Rubáiyát

Ezra Pound - "Winter is icumen in"

14. Pure Historicism in Architecture

Alexander Pope - Obelisk

A. W. N. Pugin - Mount Saint Bernard Abbey

Quinlan Terry - Veneto Villa

15. Pure Historicism in the Visual Arts

Josiah Wedgwood and John Flaxman - The Dancing Hours

William Dyce - Madonna and Child

David Ligare - Landscape with a Specific View

16. Pure Historicism in Literature

Thomas Chatterton - An Excelente Balade of Charitie

Gustave Flaubert - Salammbô

Arthur Miller - The Crucible

17. Eclectic Historicism in Architecture

Bartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli - Tsarkoye-Selo

Charles Garnier - Paris Opera

I. M. Pei - Pyramides

18. Eclectic Historicism in the Visual Arts

Jacques-Louis David - The Intervention of the Sabine Women

J. A. D. Ingres - The Apotheosis of Homer

Carlo Maria Mariani - The Moon Enters Closed Eyes

19. Eclectic Historicism in Literature and Cinema

Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels

H.G. Wells - The Time Machine

George Lucas - The Phantom Menace

Tom Stoppard - The Invention of Love

Part IV. Discontinuity and Historicism in Western Art Music

20. The Renaissance that Never Happened (and the Revolution that Did)

21. Adaptive Historicism in Music

Wolfgang A. Mozart - Eine kleine Gigue in G Major, K. 574

Ludwig van Beethoven - String Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp Minor, Op. 131

Alan Hovhaness - Three Haikus, Op. 113, No. 1

22. Derivative Historicism in Music

J. S. Bach - "Dies sind die heil'gen zehn Gebot'," BWV 635

Johaness Brahms - Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24

Igor Stravinsky - Pulcinella

23. Pure Historicism in Music

W. A. Mozart - Allemande from Suite in C Major, K. 399/385I

Johannes Brahms - Gigue in B Minor, WoO4, No. 2

Easley Blackwood - Cello Sonata, Op. 31

24. Eclectic Historicism in Music

W. A. Mozart - The Magic Flute, K. 620

Ludwig Spohr - Symphony No. 6 in G Major, Op. 116 ("Historical")

Sergei Prokofiev - Symphony No. 1 in D Major, Op. 25 ("Classical")

Part V. Renascence: Musical Historicism in the New Millennium

25. Towards a New Definition of Creativity

26. Orpheus in the Twenty-First Century

Appendix 1 (List of Illustrations)

Appendix 2 (List of Musical Examples)

Notes

Selected Sources