Music, criticism, and the challenge of history
Subtitle: shaping modern musical thought in late nineteenth-century Vienna
By: Kevin C. Karnes.
Series: AMS studies in music
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780195368666
Subjects: Hanslick, Eduard, -- 1825-1904 -- Criticism and interpretation; Adler, Guido, -- 1855-1941 -- Criticism and interpretation; Schenker, Heinrich, -- 1868-1935 -- Criticism and interpretation; Musicology -- Austria -- Vienna -- History -- 19th century; Music theory -- Austria -- Vienna -- History -- 19th century; Musical criticism -- Austria -- Vienna -- History -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-205) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : The spirit of positivism and the search for alternatives : musicology and criticism at the end of the nineteenth century; title: Eduard Hanslick and the challenge of Musikwissenschaft. Forgotten histories and uncertain legacies ; Music criticism as living history; title: Heinrich Schenker and the challenge of criticism. Music analysis as critical method ; Composer, critic, and the problem of creativity; title: Guido Adler and the problem of science. A science of music for an ambivalent age ; German music in an age of positivism; title: Epilogue : into the twentieth century.