Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-317) and index.

Introduction : beyond structural listening? / Andrew Dell'Antonio -- The disciplined subject of music analysis / Fred Everett Maus -- Musical virtues / Mitchell Morris -- The chosen one's choice / Tamara Levitz -- Beethoven antihero : sex, violence, and the aesthetics of failure, or, Listening to the Ninth symphony as postmodern sublime / Robert Fink -- Passion ; Mirrors / Paul Attinello -- Uncertainty, disorientation, and loss as responses to musical structure / Joseph Dubiel -- Collective listening : postmodern critical processes and MTV / Andrew Dell'Antonio -- One bar in eight : Debussy and the death of description / Elisabeth LeGuin -- The return of the aesthetic : music formalism and its place in political critique / Martin Scherzinger -- Afterword : toward the next paradigm of musical scholarship / Rose Rosengard Subotnik.