Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 (Pathetique) (Hardcover)

Introduction; 1. 'Pathetic' metaphors for sexuality and race, gambling and destiny; 2. Background and early reception; 3. Form and large-scale harmony; 4. The 'not-so-secret' program - a hypothesis; 5. Compositional genesis: the Six Romances Op. 73 and the Pathetique; 6. Deconstructing homosexual Grand Passion Pathetique; 7. Platonic postlude.