Nicholas Cook

The Schenker Project (eBook, PDF)

Culture, Race, and Music Theory in Fin-de-si`ecle Vienna

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Produktbeschreibung

Today we think of Heinrich Schenker, who lived in Vienna from 1884 until his death in 1935, as the most influential music theorist of the twentieth century. But he saw his theoretical writings as part of a comprehensive project for the reform of musical composition, performance, criticism, and education-and beyond that, as addressing fundamental cultural, social, and political problems of the deeply troubled age in which he lived. This book aims to explain Schenker's project through reading his key works within a series of period contexts. These include music criticism, the field in which Schenker first made his name; Viennese modernism, particularly the debate over architectural ornamentation; German cultural conservatism, which is the source of many of Schenker's most deeply entrenched values; and Schenker's own position as a Galician Jew who came to Vienna just as fully racialized anti-semitism was developing there. As well as presenting an unfamiliar perspective on the cultural and political ferment of fin-de-si?cle Vienna, this book reveals how deeply Schenker's theory is permeated by the social and political. It also raises issues concerning the meaning and value of music theory, and the extent to which today's music-theoretical agenda unwittingly reflects the values and concerns of a very different world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780198038122
• Artikelnr.: 38127773

Autorenporträt

Nicholas Cook is Professor of Music at Cambridge University. He was Professorial Research Fellow in Music at Royal Holloway, University of London, where he directs the AHRC Research Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music (CHARM). 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