Nicholas Cook

The Schenker Project

Culture, Race, and Music Theory in Fin-de-Siecle Vienna

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Produktbeschreibung

This book interprets the music theory of Henrich Schenker (1868-1935), as part of a project encompassing musical reform and social and political critique. It sets his work into the contexts of Viennese modernism, German cultural conservatism, and Schenker's position as a Jewish immigrant to the city where modern anti-semitism first developed.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 168mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9780195170566
• ISBN-10: 0195170563
• Artikelnr.: 23013222

Autorenporträt

Nicholas Cook is Professor of Music at Cambridge University. He is the author of articles and books on a wide variety of musicological and theoretical subjects (his Music: A Very Short Introduction has been translated into ten languages). He was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 2001.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgements
* Abbreviations
* Introduction: Schenker's contexts
* 1.: Foundations of the Schenker project / Schenker and the
philosophers / Formalists against formalism / Rehabilitating musical
logic
* 2.: The reluctant modernist / Curlicues and catastrophe /
Ornamentation and critique in fin-de-siècle Vienna / Modernists
against modernism / Alienated classics
* 3.: The conservative tradition / Schenker's politics / The logic of
nostalgia / The anachronistic city
* 4.: The politics of assimilation / Schenker's project and Jewish
tradition / The logic of alterity / Schenker and others
* 5.: Beyond assimilation / Schenker's Rosenhaus / The posthumous
Schenker
* Conclusion: music theory as social practice
* List of references
* Appendix: 'The spirit of musical technique', Translated by William
Pastille
* Index