Proof Through the Night: Music and the Great War (Hardcover)

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Prologue

Chapter 1. In Search of Kultur
The Strasbourg Olympic Games in Music?Beethoven and Jean-Christophe?Romain Rolland and Richard Strauss?Above the Battle?

Great Britain
Chapter 2. Pomp and Circumstance
Defining Poland and Belgium?Countering Charges from Home and Abroad
Chapter 3. The Old Lie
Elgar’s Women and Fallen Heroes?Other War Requiems
Chapter 4. The Symphony of the Front
Christmas 1914?Concerts and Soldier Songs?National Airs and Popular and Retexted Tunes

France
Chapter 5. Mobilization and the Call to History
The Silent Muse and War Pages?En blanc et noir?Neoclassicism and National Identity
Chapter 6. War and the Children
Noel of The Children Who No Longer Have a Home?War in a Toy Box?Joan of Arc
Chapter 7. War Games, 1914?1915
A March, a Dedication, and a Drawing?Game Theory, War, and the Lively Arts
Chapter 8. Charades and Masquerades
Beethoven and Doggerel?Renard and a Soldier’s Tale?National Anthems
Chapter 9. Church, State, and Schola
Veteran, Monarchist, Classicist?The Legend of St. Christopher?Problems with Beethoven, Protestants, and Jews
Chapter 10. Neoclassicism, Aviation, and the Great War
"Trois beaux oiseaux du Paradis"?The Wounded Muse?The "Toccata" and the War in the Air?Flights of Fancy

Italy
Chapter 11. The World of the Future, the Future of the World
Futurism and Music?Visionary Classicist

Germany-Austria
Chapter 12. "Dance of Death"
The Lost Brigade?Jacob’s Ladder?A Vision for the Future
Chapter 13. "The Last Days of Mankind"
A March and a Soldier’s Tale?Momentary Fraternite

The United States of America
Chapter 14. "The Yanks Are Coming"
War Song as Interventionist Propaganda?Women and the War?Troop Entertainments Abroad
Chapter 15. "Onward Christian Soldiers"
Church, State, and Moral Reciprocity?Billy Sunday?Hymns, Sentimental and Militant
Chapter 16. The 100% American
"The Star-Spangled Banner"?The Four-Minute Men and the Movies
Chapter 17. "Proof Through the Night"
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra?The Boston Symphony Orchestra and "L’affaire Muck"?Good Citizenship?Opera and Ballet in New York
Chapter 18. "On Patrol in No Man’s Land"
The "Hellfighters" of the 369th Regiment?From the Tuileries to the Recording Studio?The "Damnable Dilemma"?Birth of an American Conservatory in Fontainebleau
Chapter 19. Coming of Age in America
John Alden Carpenter?Coming to Terms with the Avant-garde?Leo Ornstein: America’s Futurist?Charles Ives: Private Witness to the Great War

Post-Armistice
Chapter 20. "Goin’ Home"
Armistice and Celebration?"Goin’ Home"?"My Buddy"
Chapter 21. Ceremonials and the War of Nerves
Nerves, Jazz, and the "Lost Generation"?Antheil and the Suppression of Sentiment
Chapter 22. The Persistence of Memory
Twilight in Belgrade: Ravel’s Frontispice?Twilight in Vienna: La valse?Re-evaluating National Histories?A Concerto for the Left Hand
Chapter 23. Prophecies and Alarms
Triptychs: Grunewald, Dix, and Hindemith?Gershwin’s Strike Up the Band!

Epilogue
Chapter 24. Unfinished Business
Notes
Bibliography
Index
List of CD Contents

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